According to a BBC One-Minute World News website post, “How Alcohol Affects the Brain,” Professor David Nutt, a [British] government adviser, who chairs the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, stated, “If alcohol were invented today, it would be classified as a drug and restricted.”
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About Lisa Frederiksen
Lisa Frederiksen has been consulting, researching, writing and speaking on substance abuse, addiction, treatment, dual diagnosis, underage drinking and help for the family centered around 21st century brain and addiction-related research since 2003. Her 4o+ years experience with family and friends’ alcohol abuse and alcoholism and her seventh and eighth books, "Loved One In Treatment? Now What!" and "If You Loved Me, You'd Stop!," frame her work. She founded BreakingTheCycles.com in 2008 and writes a blog of the same name.