Editorial - Better late
Stabroek News Guyana
4 November 2007

It is welcome news that the Ministry of Health recognizes the disease that is alcoholism as a national public health issue and is planning strategies to address it. It is unsatisfactory that it has taken so long and that so many lives had to be lost before there was public acknowledgement of this. It must also be sorely disappointing to women's rights and anti-violence activists, who have said repeatedly that alcoholism contributes to domestic abuse and other forms of violence and murder, that Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy ignored, or chose not to address, this aspect of it in his interview with this newspaper, published earlier this week.
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