Short Term Effects Of Alcohol

Although it isn’t considered a drug, at time alcohol can be as bad as or worse than one. Many people have become addicted to it just like and illegal drug. Most think that alcohol is just harmless or nothing to worry about but it has lots of effects, addiction, and many don’t even understand how it works.
First, to be able to understand the effects, and addiction it's important to understand how it works. When you are given the alcohol you first put it into your system by ingesting it through the mouth. Once it has been swallowed it is taken into the stomach. Soon after it is taken into your stomach, it is absorbed straight into your bloodstream. Because it has been absorbed into your bloodstream it is carried around the body and is taken to your brain. There it is has its effects.
Now onto the short term effects of drinking. Alcohol is used as a depressant drug for the brain. Only some of the effects of drinking only last up to a couple of hours.

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Some of the affects are that it changes our ability to talk, causes us to have mood swings, and makes ourselves lose self control by putting our self conscious to sleep. …show more content…
When you abuse alcohol some of your brain cells die because they are put to sleep by the alcohol but do not wake up. Also due to the loss of brain cells there is permanent damage done to the brain. Alcohol abuse could also lead to heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, and damage to other organs. Along with diseases comes cirrhosis. Cirrhosis causes the liver to overwork itself so the liver hardens and can’t perform its job anymore. So poisons build up in the body causing illnesses and could possibly lead to