Long-term use of alcohol can lead to liver diease, stroke, high blood pressure.
High blood pressure puts strain on your heart and this can increase your risk of heart disease and having a heart attack.
Weight gain.
Drinking can cause cancer of the mouth and throat.
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Intellectual
Impaired decision-making.
Memory loss.
Difficulty focusing.
Brain development is interrupted in unborn babies.
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Emotional
Mood swings, anxiety and depression are all effects of an alchol dependancy.
An individual may realise how their dependancy affects them and become even further depressed they may not be able to stop drinking.
Short-term, it can cause an individual to relax and feel more confident, but this is only short-lived and will make anixety worse if they end up depending on it to feel calm.
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Social
An individual may be peer pressured into drinking alcohol if all their coworkers or friends drink regularily.
Drinking can cause an individual to withdraw from family and friends.
Their new friends may be people they always drink with: this fuels the dependency and isolates the individual from people who truly care about their wellbeing and can try to get them to stop drinking.
An individual may loose friends, family and partners if they don't like the way the individual acts when they're drunk, meaning that there is no one to stop them from drinking too much so the dependancy is made worse.
They may suffer from social isolation. In order to cope with the depression that comes from this, they may start to drink even more.
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