There can be many effects, especially the negative ones, that alcohol consumption can bring us. There are short-term effects that are easy to produce and easy to remove. Meanwhile, there are also long-term effects that are more serious, harder to manage, and harder to get rid of.
What are the short-term effects of alcohol?
The short-term effects of drinking can vary from person to person. Short-term effects can be seen from drinking alcohol in large quantities that exceed the recommended amount for a moderate drinker. If you drink 3 bottles of beer a night and get drunk easily, you can easily see the short-term effects of alcohol. Some of which are:
- Dizziness
- vomiting
- slurred speech
- distorted hearing
- Vision problems
- Diarrhea
- Unconsciousness
- blackouts
- Headaches
You may notice that those listed are the immediate effect of alcohol when taken in large amounts over a short period of time. It is very common that drinking too much can make you dizzy in just a few minutes, although there are people who can consume a lot of alcohol and not get dizzy. If the alcohol intake is too much, the stomach fills up and the body can no longer digest alcohol, so drinking more can lead to vomiting, especially when the body is used only to digest small amounts of alcohol. As you drink more with the progression, the tendency is for the body to adapt and adjust the metabolic rate of digesting alcohol. That’s why novices tend to throw up a lot more than expert drinkers.
Also, having too much alcohol than the body can process can cause temporary impairment of sensory organs and motor skills. In some cases, blackouts, fainting, diarrhea, and even memory loss of things that happened while you were drunk can occur. After heavy drinking, hangover usually occurs and brings mild headaches. Following continued consumption of alcohol in large quantities, long-term effects may also occur, such as liver disease.
social effects of alcohol
In addition to the short-term and long-term effects of alcohol, there are also the social effects of alcohol. The most common of which is the effect of alcoholism on the family. When you have a problem, your family is often the most concerned group of people. Alcoholism is a problem and having it passes the problem to the family. In some cases, alcohol drinkers tend to physically and emotionally harm the family. Some fathers who are alcoholics hurt their wives and children, leading to separation, divorce, and psychological trauma. Psychological problems can arise not only for the family of the alcohol drinker but also for the alcohol drinker himself, since alcohol damages the brain.
The psychological problem becomes a social problem until it becomes a social problem. Before you have so many short-term and long-term effects of alcohol on your body along with the social effects, start drinking alcohol moderately and have the positive effects on your health.