Antecedence to Injury?

The results, Vinson found, were anything but boring. In fact, he says, they were remarkably consistent. "The association of alcohol and injury is strong and clean and it's consistent over race and gender," And the risks kicked in much faster than Vinson expected.

I think a better title for the Illumination’s Antecedence to Injury would be Scientist Spend $1.1 Million to Learn Drunks Go Boom!, but of course that would not sound quite as scholarly now would it. So let me get this straight, there is a clear correlation between drinking and falling down in both black and white men, and gasp, yes even women. I bet if we gave the University of Missouri $10 million they might even figure out that alcohol and drugs are major contributing factors to divorce, automobile accidents, child and spousal abuse, suicide, depression, school dropouts, crime, and missed work.

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All snarkiness aside, I probably could have assembled a group of semi-talented high school sopohmores to come up with this next conclusion:

With additional alcohol, the risks of injury took exponential leaps. Three to four drinks were associated with a four-to six-fold increase in risk. Five or six drinks with a 10-fold risk.

I'll be honest guys, I Googled up this story looking for a lead into how often drugs and alcohol are a contributing factor to many domestic issues of the day and yet it goes unreported. Instead I find a report stating the obvious in an oh-so hillarious way that it was just begging to be shared.

The very unhumorous part of this story is that when alcoholics and addicts continue to fall down metaphorically (abuse, crime, truancy, parental negligence, cruelty, and disregard for the safety of others), they more often than not drag their family, friends, and employers down with them. The story from the University of Missouri is much lighter, so I'll sign off on a pleasant Friday night and leave it at that.

Update: I was going to try to be fair and mention that I had linked to the middle of this report so the context could be considered questionable. But if you decide to read the entire thing you will most certainly see a few more sledgehammer obvious conclusions in the following pages that are referred to as "seminal" in their field of study. I take back my stab at being fair, this is ridiculous!