Alcohol problems – The potential effects of alcohol misuse
December 15th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed
Alcohol consumption affects us in lots of ways and our social skills; After one or two drinks you begin to become more your self and more socialble as the alcohol gets into the brain and affects the way you think.
Consuming alcohol causes your heart rate to quicken and you may experience a warm glow. This is caused by alcohol making the minute Veins in the skin bigger, allowing blood to flow closer to the surface and lowers blood pressure.
The Effects of Alcohol on Our Health
The results of drinking large amounts of alcohol can be terrible. Effects of alcohol abuse on health include anxiety, slowed breathing and heartbeat, impaired judgment leading to accidents and injuries, loss of consciousness, 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, which is why alcohol is a large part of adult obesity. In a medium-sized (175ml) glass of wine there are 125 calories and in a bottle there are over 500 calories. So thats about one quarter of your guidline daily calorie allowance!
The morning after – hangover unpleasantries
Alcohol abuse can cause you to get a hangover the next day, often being undesirable to experience. You may get stomach ache, sickness, nausea and sometimes diarrhea, Drinking alcohol also dehydrates you. Alcohol can also make you feel depressed, guilty
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Drinking more than the recommended levels regularly you are putting your health in damger. Alcohol abuse in large quantities increases blood pressure.
Alcohol misuse is regularly connected with mental health problems. It has been found that people enduring anxiety or depression were twice as likely to be heavy drinkers.
Extreme levels of drinking could sometimes lead to ‘psychosis’, a bad mental illness where the person beleives others are plotting against them. Consuming large amounts of alcohol may lead to seclusion and sadness.
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