ABSTRACT
All that is necessary to manufacture alcohol is to permit a sweetened liquid, such as berry juice, to stand in a container in a warm place for a few days. Consequently, nearly all cultures have early discovered the effects of alcoholic beverages roughly simultaneously with their development of simple containers that could hold liquids. The remarkable, almost universal, phenomenon is that each culture making these discoveries also found such pleasures in sampling the results that there soon developed the abuse of alcohol.
