• Alcohol effects are related to dose, rate of intake, body size, percentage of body fluid, expectations, social environment, physical conditions, and concentration of alcohol.

• Alcohol is considered a depressant.

• Alcohol blocks messages going to your brain and effects your:

- walking ( Alcohol makes you clumsy.)

- emotions ( Alcohol changes the way you feel to happy, sad, angry.)

- thinking ( It blocks your thinking, making you act like someone else.)

- talking and hearing ( It makes your speech slurred and can make it hard to hear.)

- vision ( Alcohol can make you see things, or make your vision blurry.)

• Alcohol effects your organs, including your:

- Liver: which breaks down 80% of alcohol consumed. Alcohol collects in the liver for processing. This is one reason diseases in the liver develop.

- Heart: it constricts arteries to the heart. Also cardiovascular diseases can result.

- Brain: it initially affects the part that controls reasoning and judgment speech and vision. Brain cells for large muscle control can be affected. Finally the conscious brain is overcome and the person passes out, which is good because a higher dose could reach the deepest brain center that controls breathing and heartbeat, in that case, the person could die.

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