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Facts You Need to Know About Alcohol Abuse

August 29, 2011 By: Category: Alcohol Facts

The impact of alcohol has been proven to be very detrimental if taken in large amounts. However, societal portrayal of alcohol omits this essential fact, as it is usually depicted as being a driving force for fun and enjoyment, a temporary escape from problems, and relief from a stressful and long day.

Disturbing situations linked to alcohol necessitate that people should be informed about the risky effects on the person’s health and well being. Addiction to alcohol has known to have wide-ranging damage and vile effects on the tissues and stomach, as the corrosive liquid flows through the blood stream into these important body organs. While it courses through the persons veins, it is known to have effects on several health aspects, depending on that person’s weight, gender, and even food intake.

Serving as a depressant or a relaxant, alcohol also further causes distress for the body. The heart for example, due to excessive alcohol, has irregular heartbeats and a dangerous elevation of high blood pressure. The abnormal pumping of blood can also cause in severe cases- irregular rhythms of the heart, resulting shortness of breathing, and even cardiac arrest.

Effects on a person’s sight, such as blurring or while in a drunken stupor- a blackout or loss of sight is also a known effect of alcohol. Further, sleeping patterns are also destroyed by alcohol. Even though it is known to induce sleep or cause a person to sleep early, the slumber is not healthy and satisfying. Usually, when a person in a drinking spree wakes up in the morning, he is not relaxed, but is even fatigued and irritated.

Kidney trouble is also an effect of consuming too much alcohol. As the kidney is known to normalize or maintain the body fluids and mineral levels in the body, several disturbances such as excessive alcohol cause the body’s energy levels to decrease.

To top it all, the most destructive and infamous effect of alcohol is on the liver. Accordingly, alcohol abuse causes a life-threatening and debilitating disease known as liver cirrhosis. This degradation of the pancreas and the gut is caused when alcohol abuse leads to acute inflammation in the pancreas, and irritation in the gut lining, which are both agonizing and

In relation to social events wherein there is interaction between people, alcohol is especially popular as it causes one to lose his reticence and even gain confidence. This seeming benefits also simultaneously results however to speech slurring, disturbed sleep or even insomnia, nausea, and vomiting. These also lead to dangerous actions such as drunk driving, as alcohol drastically weakens a person’s senses. Further, violent acts can also ensue as the intoxicated person loses his self-control and ability to think rationally. Upon waking the next morning, a drunken person usually does not remember the events last night, aside from bearing an excruciating hangover.

For centuries, addiction to alcohol has stabbed a wedge in people’s lives, and destroyed relationships, careers, and especially a person’s health. Given this factual events, one has to accept that drinking alcohol is really a dangerous affair.

The impact of alcohol has been proven to be very detrimental if taken in large amounts. However, societal portrayal of alcohol omits this essential fact, as it is usually depicted as being a driving force for fun and enjoyment, a temporary escape from problems, and relief from a stressful and long day.

Alcohol Abuse Facts

August 29, 2011 By: Category: Alcohol Facts

Alcohol abuse can be defined as the pattern of alcohol drinking, which results to one or more of these circumstances within a 12-month time frame:

  • Drinking in circumstances that result in bodily injuries (e.g. operating machinery)
  • Continued drinking despite constant relationship problems which originally resulted from drinking
  • Failure in attending to vital duties at home, office/work, or school
  • Experiencing chronic alcohol-related legal complications. Good examples are – getting detained for causing damages to somebody’s property, getting a DUI, or being sued for physically injuring someone whilst drunk.

According to experts, you have to take an intelligent approach in dealing with alcohol abuse and its symptoms. Whenever any person experiences complications in any or several of the issues mentioned above, this should be taken as signs of alcoholism. To be precise, the sign of any or several of such issues are to be taken as the red flag of someone’s engagement in abusive drinking.

CASA, the research wing at Columbia University runs researches on addiction and substance abuse. In 2005, its research findings included the following:

  • American youth who get tied with drinking before turning 15 are 4 times more prone to the risk of turning alcoholics, compared to teenagers not drinking before turning 21. This points out clearly, how alcohol abuse and uptake of alcohol go hand in hand – even when it comes to teenagers.
  • Every single day in America, over 13,000 children or teens experience the first drink of their lives. That means, too many of such teens/children are prone to getting tied to alcohol abuse.
  • Every single year, around 1,400 college students (who are between 18 and 24 years of age) die from accidents or injuries that are related to alcohol uptakes. This includes motor car accidents. How grim alcohol abuse is for young people is clear from these traffic fatalities.

These facts are enough to understand the harsh realities that no one can deny.

Alcohol Facts

August 28, 2011 By: Category: Alcohol Facts

Drinking beer has already been with us ever since before us we’re born. When we say “let’s drink to it”, it normally means “let’s celebrate and have a beer”. The alcoholic beverage is a socializing method for others and an addiction for some. Drinkers become younger and younger every year even though they know they’re not allowed. Alcohol consumption is a stress reliever and a past time for other people. Sometimes people drink out of happiness, loneliness, anxiety and so forth.

I drank whenever there’s a special gathering. I typed the word special because I don’t want to drink too much. The last time I got drunk so bad, I was depressed. I ended up kicking the birthday boy on his hamstring. Thankfully he accepted my apology. Alcohol can be a hazard to anyone who’ll take in too much of it. It can damage our organs if we consume it day after day. There’s a short term and long term effect behind it.

Short term effects include body coordination is decreased. You’ll feel drowsiness and the balance is so off that you’ll fall with just simple a push. The reflex is decreased that can lead to road accidents if you’re a driver. Some can have hallucinations and some tend to have uncontrollable actions that lead to things that you didn’t know you’re capable of doing. The long term effect of alcohol can include damage to the heart, liver, brain and the critical organs in our body. There are sleeping orders and cancers that are linked to this beverage as well.

Alcohol is a depressant that intensifies whatever you’re feeling. If you’re happy, it intensifies you’re positive feeling. However if you’re feeling depressed and took a depressant, it becomes a heavier feeling. I experienced being drunk and I mouthed off everything that I normally don’t tell. Even though I’m not coordinated, I still wanted to get into a fight for a dumb reason.

A cousin of mine got into an accident when riding a motorcycle. He crashed as soon as he turned and had scars on his face for at least one month. A middle aged man got beaten up because he hit another guy’s girlfriend. The next day he said sorry because his actions clearly weren’t controlled. Learning from what has happened, it’s never bad to drink up and socialize with other people. What’s wrong here is if you drank alcohol without any limits for yourself.





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