Here are a few Alcohol Facts and Dangers associated with Alcoholism
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Short-Term Risks
- Injuries, including traffic injuries, falls, drownings, burns, and unintentional firearm injuries.
- Violence, including intimate partner violence and child maltreatment.
- Risky sexual behaviors, including unprotected sex, sex with multiple partners, and increased risk of sexual assault.
- Miscarriage and stillbirth among pregnant women.
- Alcohol poisoning that can cause loss of consciousness, low blood pressure and body temperature, coma, respiratory depression, or death.
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Long-Term Risks
- Liver disease
- Alcoholic hepatitis
- Cirrhosis, which is among the 15 leading causes of all deaths in the United States.
- Worsening of liver function
- Dementia, stroke and neuropathy
- Cardiovascular problems, including myocardial infarction, cardiomyopathy, atrial fibrillation and hypertension.
- Cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, liver, colon, and breast.
- A few long term effects related to alcoholism
- Malnutrition
- Chronic alcohol abuse
- Chronic pancreatitis
- Alcoholic liver disease
- Cancer
- Damage to the central nervous system
- Oropharyngeal cancer
- Esophageal cancer
- Neurological damage
- Cardiovascular disease
- A few mental effects caused by alcoholism
- Hypomania
- Panic disorder
- Phobias
- Anxiety disorders
- Suicide
- Major depression
- Mania
- Here are a few statistics which are alcohol related
- One person is killed every half-hour due to drunk driving
- Every other minute a person is seriously injured in an alcohol related crash
- Each year approximately 16,000 are killed in alcohol related crashes
- Alcohol is a factor in almost half of all traffic fatalities
- Over 40% of fatal automobile accidents are alcohol-related
- Approximately 30% of Americans will be in an accident involving alcohol
- More than one-third of all fatal traffic accidents involve at least one person with a BAC over 0.08%
- You are more likely to be in a drinking and driving accident during the holidays.
- Drinking and driving accidents occur with more frequency during holidays due to ‘acceptable’ drinking at parties and family functions.
- Teenage drivers are at a higher risk to be involved in a drinking and driving accident.
- Young legal drinkers, ages 21 to 34, are responsible for more alcohol-related fatal crashes than any other age group.
- A person’s chances of being involved in a drunk driving accident increase dramatically after every two beers they drink.
- There are approximately 88,000 deaths attributable to excessive alcohol use each year in the United States.
- In 2006, there were more than 1.2 million emergency room visits and 2.7 million physician office visits due to excessive drinking.
These alcohol facts and dangers are but just a few
There are quite a few not mentioned in this post as alcohol related injuries and side effects are numerous.
This is just an example of some of the alcohol facts and dangers associated with alcoholism.