Alcohol effects

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There are various ways that alcohol misuse can affect our health and our social skills; After 1 or 2 drinks you may feel more at ease and more socialble as the alcohol gets into the brain and affects your thinking.
Alcohol consumption causes your heart rate to quicken and you may feel a warm glow. This is caused by alcohol making little Veins in the skin widen, allowing blood to flow nearer to the surface and lowers blood pressure.

The Effects of Alcohol on your health

The dangers of drinking too much alcohol can be extreme. Alcohol consumption health risks include slowed breathing and heartbeat, loss of consciousness, impaired judgment leading to accidents and injuries, anxiety, suffocation through choking on your own vomit and potentially fatal alcohol poisoning. Drinking too much alcohol can also effect you mentally (generally temporarily), inducing guilt, anger and even paranoia, for no real reason. Your words may slurr, often don’t recognise your surroundings and drinking too much alcohol can result in memory loss.

Drinking heavily increases your calorie intake, resulting in it being partly responsible for adult obesity. In a medium-sized (175ml) glass of wine there are 125 calories and over 500 in a bottle. So thats about one quarter of your guidline daily calorie allowance!

Hangovers - Headaches could be the least of your worries

Alcohol may cause you to get a hangover the next day, which often has unpleasant affects. You may experience stomach ache, sickness, nausea and sometimes diarrhea, Alcohol abuse also has a dehydrating effect. Alcohol misuse can also make you feel depressed, guilty

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consuming more than the guidline daily levels regularly you are putting your health at risk. Consuming larger amounts of alcohol increases blood pressure.

Alcohol abuse is frequently connected with mental health problems. It has been found that people suffering from anxiety and depression were twice as likely to be problem drinkers.

Extreme quantities of drinking could sometimes cause ‘psychosis’, a severe mental illness where the person beleives others are out to get them. Heavy drinking can lead to lonliness and hopelessness.