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Alcohol affects us in several ways and our social skills; After one or two drinks you often feel more at ease and more chatty as the alcohol reaches the brain and affects your thinking.
Alcohol abuse causes your heart rate to speed up and you may experience a warm glow. This is caused by alcohol making the smaller Veins in the skin enlarge, allowing blood to flow nearer to the surface and lowers blood pressure.
Effects of Alcohol on your health
The effects of drinking large amounts of alcohol can be terrible. Alcohol abuse 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), making you feel guilt or anger for no apparant reason and even making you paranoid. Your words may slurr, often don’t recognise your surroundings and drinking too much alcohol can result in memory loss.
Heavy drinking also increases your calorie intake, giving an indication as to why alcohol is a big 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!
Hangovers – Headaches could be the least of your worries
Alcohol abuse can cause you to get a hangover the next day, which often has unpleasant affects. You may get sickness, nausea stomach ache, and sometimes diarrhea, Alcohol misuse also has a dehydrating effect. Drinking alcohol can also make you feel upset, guilty
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If you drink over the recommmended daily amounts regularly you are putting your health in damger. Alcohol abuse in large quantities increases blood pressure.
Alcohol consumption is often linked with mental health problems. A recent British survey found that people suffering from anxiety and depression were twice as likely to be heavy drinkers.
Big levels of drinking can occasionally cause ‘psychosis’, a harsh mental illness where they develop delusions of persecution. Heavy drinking may lead to lonliness and dismay.