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Alcohol Alcohol is a drug, but unlike most of the other drugs, it is socially
accepted and is legal. Alcohol is bad for you and does have long term affects
associated with it. Such as the long addiction to it, effects on the body, and
the social interaction effects. Alcohol, and alcoholism is common in America,
but drinking is more common around kids. Social drinking, a term kids and
drinkers have come accustom to, is defined by one standard drink per hour, and
no more than 3 per day, but some people just socialize around people that drink
as heavily as they do and confuse that for social drinking. Addiction to alcohol
can be acquired easily if not careful, binge drinking and family history are all
keys in the identification of addiction.
Family history could be linked to
alcoholism by finding out if your family had problems in the past with alcohol,
and it is determined by studies that genes have effects on alcohol. Alcohol is a
drug, but legal unlike the other drugs on the street. In my opinion, all drugs
are all harmful to the body, and can cause serious problems to you, and people
around you, in the long run. Alcohol can effect the body in multiple ways. The
tranquilizing effects of being drunk acts like a stimulate, but is a depressant,
and causes the brain to lower self control, impairs vision and other senses, and
effects bodily coordination. This tranquilizing effect is caused by the
consumption of alcohol which in turn may cause serious effects on the liver,
heart, and the brain. The alcohol consumption effects these organs, and has an
overall personality change when signs of alcoholism begin. Alcohol overall has a
detrimental effect over the body and the mind.
I do believe alcohol is a drug
and like other drugs which are not legalized in the U.S. it is still really bad
for you. Also from alcohol a big risk is in evolved with drunk driving and
getting alcohol poisoning. Both of these possible consequences are a big factor
when someone drinks irresponsibly. Drunk driving accidents, and death, happen
too much to not notice, but to know that drinking is a big cause of deaths in
the year. Alcohol poisoning has a great chance of killing you because the
effects are the usual drunken depressant effects but it slowly gets worse as you
slip into coma, and if not taken care of, death will emerge. Social drinking and
the effects one can have on someone’s personality is usually a drastic change.
From this I mean I can speak from experience, one of my friends is an alcoholic
from my perspective.
Every chance he gets he drinks. When he drinks, his
personality, and sometimes he, does somersaults, and changes into a mean self
centered alcoholic. But anytime he’s not drunk, he seems normal. Close
interaction would prove that he has a personality problem, and a severe
attitude. What I am trying to say is that my friend is my friend, no matter what
problems he has, and he’s going through counseling, and Alcoholics Anonymous
(AA) classes, yet still he struggles to stay sober,even though he’s giving it
all he has. Alcohol is in no means a good drug. From what I know, and have
experienced, alcohol is just an open window for a long list of problems and
difficulties, and seems to make growing up harder. It leaves the body
susceptible to doing bodily harm, to self, or to others, by not being sure what
it is that you are currently doing, and why someone would want to risk there
chances of death, and life long hardship is beyond me. Alcohol is a drug which
is now is legal in the U.S., and if that changes, it will, in my opinion,
advance our society mentally, and make us stronger, in the body and in the mind
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