Alcohol abuse can have many affects on our health and our social skills; After 1 or 2 drinks you often become more relaxed and more talkative as the alcohol reaches the brain and affects the way you think.
Consuming alcohol causes your heart rate to quicken and you may feel a warm glow. This is caused by alcohol making the small Veins in the skin enlarge, allowing blood to flow closer to the surface and lowers blood pressure.

Effects of Alcohol on your health

The dangers of drinking extreme amounts of alcohol can be dire. Alcohol abuse health implications include anxiety, impaired judgment leading to accidents and injuries, loss of consciousness, slowed breathing and heartbeat, suffocation through choking on your own vomit and potentially fatal alcohol poisoning. There are also many mental effects, making you feel guilt or anger for no apparant reason and even making you paranoid. You slurr your words, often don’t recognise your surroundings and drinking too much alcohol can result in memory loss.

Drinking alcohol increases your calorie intake, giving an indication as to why alcohol is a main factor in adult obesity. In a medium-sized (175ml) glass of wine there are 125 calories and over 500 in a bottle. Thats approximately 1 quarter of the national guidline daily amount!

The morning after – hangover unpleasantries

Alcohol consumption might cause you to get a hangover the next day, often being unpleasant to experience. You may experience stomach ache, sickness, nausea and sometimes diarrhea, Alcohol consumption also dehydrates you. Alcohol consumption can also make you feel depressed, guilty

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If you drink over the recommmended daily units often you are putting your health at risk. Large amounts of alcohol consumed increases blood pressure.

Alcohol consumption is regularly connected with mental health problems. A recent British survey found that people with depression and anxiety were twice as likely to be alcoholics.

Big quantities of drinking may sometimes lead to ‘psychosis’, a severe mental illness where hallucinations and delusions of persecution develop. Heavy drinking might lead to isolation and hopelessness.