I just read this in a Jewish publication. It is quite eye-opening:
“Rosh Yeshiva slams heavy Purim drinking
In News on February 17, 2010 at 6:17 pm
By Sammy Steiner
Issue of February 19, 2010/ 6 Adar 5770
Lazer Rosman, a founding member of Hatzalah in Borough Park, spoke out against making light of excessive drinking; something people do, he said, because they do not see the repercussions.
One local mental health authority was less enthused about drinking to excess.
Four years ago, Salamon said, he visited a 17 year-old child who was in the hospital after suffering a stroke triggered by alcohol abuse.
Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, executive director of Project Y.E.S. and the organizer of the conference call, told the Jewish Star that drinking on Purim could have its own set of unintended consequences.
The custodian was surprised.
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