| Drinking alcoholic beverages during social functions is a | | | | the heart's muscular tissue resulting in heart failure. |
| common practice among adults. Occasional drinking | | | | Anemia and bleeding disorders can also result from |
| poses no treat to health but sometimes the occasional | | | | chronic alcohol abuse.Peptic ulcer disease is likely to |
| social drinking can progress over time into alcohol | | | | develop in heavy drinkers. Alcohol can irritate the |
| abuse. Alcohol abuse has varied effects on our bodies | | | | stomach lining and prolonged use can cause chronic |
| and chronic drinking can pose major health | | | | stomach problems including peptic ulcers.Alcohol has |
| risks.Alcohol affects the brain and the nervous system | | | | taken and affected so many lives. This is one of the |
| by slowing down the drinker's reactions and making | | | | major causes of traffic fatalities in the U.S. When a |
| him feel tranquilized and relaxed. Alcohol dulls the brain. | | | | person's coordination and judgment are impaired by |
| When someone takes alcohol, his inhibitions are | | | | alcohol, his capacity to drive a motor vehicle is |
| lowered making him more aggressive and hostile. | | | | lessened as well. Often, a person under the influence |
| When taken in higher dosage, alcohol can cause | | | | of alcohol believes that he still has the capacity to drive |
| mental block out, impairing the person's concentration | | | | and this sometimes results in vehicular accidents that |
| and ability to judge situations properly. This will also | | | | are fatal. Other types of accidents resulting from the |
| create distorted coordination and emotional | | | | participants being alcohol intoxicated may be fires |
| reactions.The liver is one of the primary targets of | | | | resulting in injuries and loss of lives, boating accidents, |
| chronic alcohol abuse. Alcoholic hepatitis results when | | | | water sports and snowmobiling.A man's ability to |
| the liver cells are damaged due to recent heavy | | | | procreate is usually affected by alcohol abuse. The |
| drinking. On the other hand, liver cirrhosis is a result of a | | | | nerves that control erection and ejaculation are dulled |
| long-term excessive alcohol use wherein large areas | | | | by alcohol resulting in impotence. In women on the |
| of the liver are destroyed or scarred. Damage to the | | | | other hand, chronic alcohol use results in a loss of |
| liver may become extremely serious and life | | | | sexual appetite. Furthermore, alcohol intake during |
| threatening.The blood vessels found in the skin surface | | | | pregnancy can prove harmful and may result in fetal |
| usually widen as a result of alcohol intake because of | | | | alcohol syndrome - the leading cause of mental |
| the alcohol's vasodilator properties. This is the reason | | | | retardation. Other ill effects of alcohol consumption |
| why the skin of heavy drinkers appears flushed. | | | | during pregnancy are low birth weight, slow |
| Chronic alcohol abuse results in the inability of the blood | | | | development and learning problems.Therefore, alcohol |
| vessels to shrink back to normal giving the person a | | | | abuse is not only a social deterrent but its |
| permanent reddish look.Cardiomyopathy is a major | | | | accompanying health risks are reasons enough for an |
| health risk alcohol abusers are likely to suffer. | | | | alcohol abuser to seek immediate rehabilitation and |
| Long-term alcohol use creates damage and weakens | | | | treatment before everything is lost. |