Alcohol consumption affects us in a number of ways and our social skills; After 1 or 2 drinks you may become more comfortable and more socialble as the alcohol gets to the brain and affects the way you think.
Alcohol misuse causes your heart rate to heighten and you may experience a warm glow. This is caused by alcohol making the tiny blood vessels in the skin widen, 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. Effects of alcohol misuse on health 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 heavily also increases your calorie intake, which is why alcohol is a huge factor in 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 abuse can cause you to get a hangover the next morning, often being unpleasant to experience. You may feel stomach ache, sometimes diarrhea, sickness and nausea, Drinking alcohol also has a dehydrating effect. Drinking alcohol can also make you feel upset, guilty

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If you drink over the guidline daily amounts regularly you are putting your health at risk. Consuming alcohol in large quantities increases blood pressure.

Alcohol consumption is frequently connected with mental health problems. It has been found that people enduring depression and anxiety were twice as likely to be alcoholics.

Big levels of drinking could occasionally cause ‘psychosis’, a harsh mental illness where they develop delusions of persecution. Consuming large amounts of alcohol may lead to isolation and depression.