Question: Discuss why alcohol has retained such popularity with the American public when it is so clearly laden with high risk? What is the attraction to spending huge sums of money to wake up the following morning with a raging headache, a nauseous stomach, and the need to periodically vomit? Has common sense simple vanished from the American thought process? Be sure to research the dangers of alcohol abuse to include the psychological, biological and sociological impact in your answers. Don't forget to cite your research.