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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4438151" data-attributes="member: 48469">The reasoning I’ve read is that those who are chemically dependent on alcohol might go into withdrawal and flood emergency rooms if their access were cut off."Each year there are roughly 250,000 emergency department visits and 850 deaths related to alcohol withdrawal," George friend. Koob, the director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, noted in a statement to Newsweek. "Abruptly limiting access to alcohol could lead to an increase in withdrawal among people with severe alcohol use disorder and add to the burden on the healthcare system."</blockquote>