Drafted in the 2nd Round by the Denver Broncos, the team of all his dreams, and placed on offense alongside the great Peyton Manning, Montee Ball seemed to have everything. Then the partying started. And it didn’t stop till he was in a jail cell.
Altitude and alcohol already make an unruly mix. Add crass entitlement, institutional privilege and other Selfie Era insufferabilities and you get truly unruly flights. That’s why the nation’s airlines are removing alcohol from planes. The applause starts here.
Forget that glass of wine with dinner. Forsake the beer at the end of a hard day. Skip the cocktails with friends on Friday nights. Why? Because a new study finds that alcohol on the brain can be harmful — in any amount.
The cost of alcoholism takes many factors into consideration. Consequently it isn’t always easy to calibrate. That’s one of the reasons the costs themselves are rarely even considered. It’s also one of the reasons those costs are so considerable. But a new JAMA study shows we ignore those costs at our peril.
