Alcohol misuse affects us in a number of ways and our social skills; After 1 or 2 drinks you may become more at ease and more talkative as the alcohol gets to the brain and affects your thinking.
Alcohol causes your heart rate to heighten and you may experience a warm glow. This is caused by alcohol making the little Veins in the skin bigger, allowing blood to flow closer to the surface and lowers blood pressure.
Effects of Alcohol on your health
The effects of drinking large amounts of alcohol can be dire. Alcohol abuse health dangers 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, 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 heavily also increases your calorie intake, resulting in it being partially responsible for adult obesity. In a medium-sized (175ml) glass of wine there are 125 calories and over 500 in a bottle. So thats about one quarter of your guidline daily calorie allowance!
The morning after – hangover unpleasantries
Drinking alcohol might cause you to have a hangover the next day, which often has undesirable affects. You may experience sickness, nausea stomach ache, and sometimes diarrhea, Alcohol consumption also dehydrates you. Alcohol abuse can also make you feel upset, guilty
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consuming more than the recommended levels regularly you are putting your health in damger. Consuming alcohol in large quantities increases blood pressure.
Alcohol misuse is frequently connected with mental health problems. It has been found that people with depression or anxiety were twice as likely to be problem drinkers.
Big levels of drinking could occasionally cause ‘psychosis’, a bad mental illness where hallucinations and delusions of persecution develop. Heavy drinking could lead to seclusion and hopelessness.