There are various ways that alcohol misuse can affect our health and our social skills; After one or two drinks you start to feel more confident and more chatty as the alcohol reaches the brain and affects your cognitive abilities.
Drinking alcohol causes your heart rate to quicken and you may experience a warm glow. This is caused by alcohol making the small Veins in the skin bigger, allowing blood to flow closer to the surface and lowers blood pressure.
Effects of Alcohol on your health
The results of drinking too much alcohol can be dire. Alcohol consumption effects 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. 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 also increases your calorie intake, giving an indication as to why alcohol is a main factor in adult obesity. There are 125 calories in a medium-sized (175ml) glass of wine and over 500 in a bottle. Thats approximately 1 quarter of the national guidline daily amount!
The morning after – hangover unpleasantries
Alcohol may cause you to have a hangover the next morning, which often has unpleasant affects. You may experience stomach ache, sickness, nausea and sometimes diarrhea, Alcohol misuse also has a dehydrating effect. Alcohol can also make you feel sad, guilty
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Drinking more than the recommmended daily levels often you are putting your health in damger. Consuming alcohol in large quantities increases blood pressure.
Alcohol misuse is regularly related with mental health problems. It has been found that people suffering from depression or anxiety were twice as likely to be alcoholics.
High levels of drinking can occasionally lead to ‘psychosis’, a bad mental illness where hallucinations and delusions of persecution develop. Heavy drinking could lead to seclusion and dismay.