Cnota trzeźwości: indywidualna czy społeczna?

Contemporary societies suffer a lot from the Lack of moderation in the use of psychoactive substances, especially nicotine and ethanol. Traditional approach for regulating the use of ethanol was concentrated on the competencies of a single person, both in the case of sobriety and drunkenness. Saint Thomas Aquinas, in two issues of Summa Theologiae (2-2, qu. 149-150) took a similar position. Meanwhile, it seems that the sobriety and drunkenness have a more social character. It is much more difficult to develop sobriety in the societies in which there is a consent to the abuse of psychoactive substances.