Alcoholism
Sir,—The warnings of Sir Charles Burns and Mr Justice Richmond Should not fall on deaf governmental ears. A Royal. Commission to probe the efiects of alcohol in New Zealand is urgently needed. Alcohol is to NewZealand what opium was to pre-Communist China. The humain brain is like an electrical switchboard. Its three portions are connected by association fibres structually resembling electric wiring. Alcohol numbs these association fibres. First, it puts the reasoning ability out of action and affects judgment. Hence the Transport Department’s “If you drink, don’t drive.” The individual’s behaviour is then controlled by the thalamus. He obeys his emotions instead of his reason (which explains crime among young people today). Last, it affects balance. Alcohol taken persistently permanently damages the associat!on fibres of the brain, brutalises the individual, and finally sends him insane.— Yours, etc.,
WAKE UP, NEW ZEAIJVND. May 31, 1963.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30147, 3 June 1963, Page 3
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