Use can lead to nausea and vomiting, confusion, dizziness, lack of coordination, drowsiness, slurred speech, talkativeness, decrease in inhibitions, dulling of mental processes, slow reaction rates. Staggering, loss of coordination, amnesia, confusion, tremors, acute alcoholic coma. Nervousness, tremors, sweating, altered perceptions, fear, auditory hallucinations. Withdrawal from long-term intoxication can cause grand mal convulsions, toxic psychosis with hallucinations, and death. Alcohol is so much a part of our culture that we tend to forget that it is a drug with high addictive potential.
Alcohol abuse is one of America's most serious social and health problems.
The suicide rate among alcoholics is 6 to 20 times higher than in the general population.