Alcohol consumption affects us in various ways and our social skills; After 1 or 2 drinks you may become more at ease and more loud as the alcohol gets into the brain and affects your cognitive abilities.
Alcohol causes your heart rate to speed up and you may experience a warm glow. This is caused by alcohol making the smaller blood vessels in the skin bigger, allowing blood to flow nearer to the surface and lowers blood pressure.

The Effects of Alcohol on Health

The problems with drinking large amounts of alcohol can be dire. Alcohol abuse health implications include slowed breathing and heartbeat, loss of consciousness, impaired judgment leading to accidents and injuries, anxiety, suffocation through choking on your own vomit and potentially fatal alcohol poisoning. There are also many mental effects, 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 alcohol also increases your calorie intake, resulting in it being partly responsible for adult obesity. There are 125 calories in a medium-sized (175ml) glass of wine 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 misuse may cause you to get a hangover the next day, often being unpleasant to experience. You may experience stomach ache, sometimes diarrhea, sickness and nausea, Drinking alcohol also has a dehydrating effect. Alcohol misuse can also make you feel sad, guilty

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If you drink over the guideline amounts often you are putting your health in damger. Large amounts of alcohol consumed increases blood pressure.

Drinking alcohol is often linked with mental health problems. It has been found that people suffering from anxiety or depression were twice as likely to be problem drinkers.

Extreme levels of drinking could occasionally cause ‘psychosis’, a severe mental illness where hallucinations and delusions of persecution develop. Consuming large amounts of alcohol can lead to lonliness and unhappiness.