Forensic View and Personal Opinions to the Lethal Cases of the Alcohol Dependent

Summary Objectives: The objective of this work is to document four lethal alcohol cases and discuss our opinions concerning alcoholism in young, and adult, people. Material and methods: We will consider archive examples of four lethal cases with a view to considering possibilities for intervention and prevention. The study involves one woman and three men who were dependent on alcohol. It is a brief description of events that led to a tragic outcome without apparent influence of others within the frame of acquired knowledge concerning these cases. Results: In the first case, the main protagonist is a woman who died lying on the ground in the hallway of her own apartment. The second case describes a man who died after falling or jumping out of the fourth-floor window in an apartment building. The third case is a man who died lying on the floor of an empty apartment. In the fourth and last case, there is a man who died sitting on the couch in his own home. Conclusion: All the mentioned people started drinking young, never admitting their growing alcohol dependence. They refused treatment and never stopped drinking. Here several factors come into consideration: family influence, nurture, social environment, educational institutions, to say nothing of the influence of support mechanisms concerning the management of the problem by government agencies. There appears to be a consensus among experts that alcohol is a major health risk that needs to be communicated throughout public, institutional, channels, especially to young people in order to address this public health crisis.