The relationship betweenalcohol and motor vehicle crashes is widely recognized. Alcohol goes directly into the bloodstream which is why it effects every system in the body. Heavy drinking can cause cirrhosis and cancer of the liver. Children in families with alcoholic members are at higher risk for alcoholism. Excessive drinking can decrease the amount of testosterone in a man's body and causeimpotence.
Alcohol abuse can lead to both homicides and suicides.
Drinking can cause serious injuries and death. Long-term effects of heavy alcohol use include loss of appetite, vitamin deficiencies, stomach ailments, sexualimpotence, liver damage, heart and central nervous damage and memory loss. Alcohol blocks the messages going to your brain and alters your perceptions and emotions, vision,hearing and coordination. Alcoholism is a disease. But having the disease is nothing to be ashamed of.