Alcoholism and Distilled Spirits

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In a world awash with distilled spirits, where people are drinking at home alone. Alcoholas always sat on this kind of razors edge between benefit and conrane. Has these positive benefits, but it imposes the serious costs t the calculus may change if we're in a world awashing with distilled spirits. And we're oll and we're all moving to the hard stuff.

Do we have alcohol to thank for civilization? The answer, according to Edward Slingerland’s new book, “Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization,” is a resounding yes. Edward, who’s a professor at the University of British Columbia and self-proclaimed “philosophical hedonist,” says that far from being an evolutionary fluke, our taste for alcohol is an evolutionary advantage — one that we’ve relied on for millennia to help us lead more social, creative, and pleasurable lives.