Helping Other People Everyday (HOPE) is more than a clever acronym for the staff, management and independently contracted Agents of USHEALTH Advisors. For them, it is a mission that is lived on a daily basis; an organizational commitment to make a positive difference in the lives of others.
Why did the United States have a prohibition movement, and enact prohibition? We offer some generalizations in answer to that question. Prohibition in the United States was a measure designed to reduce drinking by eliminating the businesses that manufactured, distributed, and sold alcoholic beverages. The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took away license to do business from the brewers, distillers, vintners, and the wholesale and retail sellers of alcoholic beverages.
Prohibition did not end alcohol use. What is remarkable, however, is that a relatively narrow political movement, relying on a relatively weak set of statutes, succeeded in reducing, by one-third, the consumption of a drug that had wide historical and popular sanction.ust such a danger is posed by those who casually invoke the ''lessons of Prohibition'' to argue for the legalization of drugs. What everyone ''knows'' about Prohibition is that it was a failure. It did not eliminate drinking; it did create a black market.