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. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Reprinted with permission and reformatted for use at Hope and Healing webChronicles.