How far the weather conditions and impact of alcohol give rise to the road violence and outrage?
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The alcohol-drug abuse-violence nexus presents itself in several distinctly different facets: alcohol and other drugs of abuse may act on brain mechanisms that cause a high-risk individual to engage in aggressive and violent behavior. Individuals with costly heroin or cocaine habits may commit violent crimes in order to secure the resources for further drug purchases. Narcotic drug dealers, but not alcohol vendors, practice their trade in a violent manner. Alcohol, narcotics, hallucinogens, and psychomotor stimulants differ substantially from each other and in the way that they are related to different kinds of violent and aggressive behavior. Generalizations about the linkage of alcohol, drugs of abuse, and violence are complicated by the many direct and indirect levels of interaction (e.g., Goldstein 1985); these range from drugs activating aggression-specific brain mechanisms, through drugs acting as licensure for violent and aggressive behavior, as well as drugs as commodities in an illegal distribution system that relies upon violent enforcement tactics, to violent behavior representing one of the means by which a drug habit is maintained. The persistently overwhelming alcohol-violence link as well as