FACTS ABOUT ALCOHOL

Alcohol is part of our way of life in Norway and is not a cause of ill health when used in moderation. However, excessive alcohol consumption is a major cause of physical ill-health as well as social and emotional problems.
Norwegians drink more alcohol, but the increase is largest among the wealthy and Norwegians with higher education. Norwegian researchers found a connection between education, income and alcohol consumption. The people with high social status have the largest increase in alcohol consumption, stated Strand and his colleague Asbjørn Steiro in the Norwegian medical association magazine. You can get a lot of diseases from drinken such as liver diseases, pancreatitis, epilepsy, polyneuropathy, alcoholic dementia and heart disease.Long term misuse of alcohol can also cause a wide range of mental health effects. Alcohol misuse is not only toxic to the body but also to brain function and thus psychological well.Psychiatric disorders are common in alcoholics, especially anxiety and depression disorders.As many as 25% of the allcoholics suffer under psychiatric disorders.

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project about alcohol

this is my school project about alcohol

Alcohol is the single most destructive drug in the world, causing more deaths than any other substance used by humans combined.Tobacco does not even come close. alcohol is “legal” and “socially acceptable” in most places of the world and It must ergo be okay. Alcohol is a toxin and has to be broken down by the body in order for it to be used.Without even beginning to touch on the long list of diseases it directly causes and contributes, alcohol reaches in indirect ways on societies and individuals that tobacco can barely begin to match.