Effects of Alcohol Essay

While many find drinking to be enjoyable, the costs of alcohol misuse and drunk driving are dangerous and often deadly. Teenagers and young adults who are already prone to overindulgence and poor judgement should not have the ability to easily obtain reality altering substances like alcohol. One common misconception about alcohol and the human brain is that it has little to no effect on the way it functions. However, alcohol and other depressants measurably slow down the brain and nervous…

Colin Forrest August 24 2014 JCC Alcohol and Its Effects Alcohol is linked to 75,000 deaths in the US every year. It can be located in many homes across the U.S and sold in a variety of stores. The drug effects people’s social, mental, and physical health. Although perceived as harmless by teenagers and adults, alcohol is a very dangerous drug. Alcohol has many effects both long and short term. The long-term effects include Cirrhosis, a disease that causes liver failure, which can cause you…

Alcohol Abuse About 18 million adult Americans have an alcohol use disorder. This means that their drinking causes distress and harm. Alcoholism is a disease that causes a major problem for both teens and adults in the U.S.A. Alcohol often has a strong effect on people. The long-term effects can damage the brain, cause cancer of the liver and pancreas and other medical problems. Alcohol abuse not only harms the addict, but it can destroy a family creating emotional turmoil for family…

College and alcohol have always been a great combination. Young teens graduate from high school looking to pursue a higher education so they look for colleges to attend. Once these teens get to college they find themselves in situations different from what they are normally used to. Teens get exposed to all kinds of new things, and one of these things is alcohol. Colleges have a serious problem with students who abuse alcohol and they always will have this problem. To make matters worse on this…

It was once stated in the essay “Too Many Colleges Are Still in Denial About Alcohol Abuse” that “colleges have a serious problem with alcohol abuse among students, and it’s not getting any better…college presidents viewed alcohol abuse as their top campus-life problem” (Wechsler 336). I believe that alcohol consumption is one of the biggest problems we as a society are facing today. We see this as a common activity among college students and sometimes we even encourage it by letting people…

In 2014 more than 16.3 million adults suffered from the debilitating disease of alcoholism. The rates of alcohol abuse and deaths caused by alcohol have continued to rise over the past thirty-five years. In fact, when only comparing statistics from 2002 and 2014, alcohol related deaths had increased by 35%, which equates to roughly 30,722 fatalities. (Ingraham) Alcoholism is a disease that not only affects the sufferer, but also has consequences for children and family members of the…

destruction on our roads. This paper will discuss how alcohol has negative side effects on the drinkers, leads overall to terrible events because the people are in a weak state of both mind and body and it’s negative effect on others. Alcohol consumption will also be looked at from a legal perspective and its costs, and what is being done to decrease this problem. Alcohol consumption affects various people in different ways. When consuming alcohol, many people tend to realize that they should…

Dr. Paul Lemoine was a pediatrician in Nates, France, who was the first person to describe Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) (Stewart 15). After awhile of studying mothers that consume alcohol while pregnant, Dr. David Smith and Dr. Kenneth Jones from the University of Washington, gave the name to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (17). “Some of the highest percentages of babies with FAS or Fetal Alcohol Syndrome occur in certain Native American communities where unemployment, poverty levels, and alcoholism are…

The topic of Alcohol and Drug abuse made an impact on me since my father was an alcoholic until just recently. My father wasn’t the type to get drunk in front of his family so he wouldn’t drink so much to make himself drunk. In a way, he did somewhat know how to control his drinking, but he still did drink more than someone his age should and anyway you cut it, alcohol was still bad for his health.. At first I didn’t know what was so addicting about Alcohol or what inside it made it so addicting…

Alcohol consumption on college campuses in the United States and its associated problems has been well documented in the past five decades. Data from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (2004) show that approximately one thousand four hundred college students die annually from excessive alcohol consumption while an additional five hundred thousand sustained all kinds of injuries. The data also revealed that 70,000 sexual assault cases that are reported by college students are…