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Alcohol Health Risks: The Physical Effects of Chronic Drinking
Years of chronic and heavy drinking can substantially damage the organs and systems of the body, and although some of this damage is reversible, sadly, some of the cognitive declines are not. As follows are a list of some of the major organs, and how alcohol abuse can affect each of these organs.
Alcoholic Pancreatitis - Treatments and Pain Relief
Understanding the causes, treatments and prevention of painful pancreatitis.
How’s Your Liver? 8 Ways To Mend Your Liver After Quitting Alcohol
How’s your liver? Find out more about alcoholic liver diseases, and most importantly, learn 8 ways to heal your liver now that you’re no longer drinking! (If you’re still drinking too much, there’s really only 1 thing you need to do - stop hurting your liver.)
Alcohol Abuse and Stomach Pain? It's Probably Gastritis
Heavy drinking can cause acute or chronic stomach pain.
Heavy Drinking, High Blood Pressure and the Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke
They call hypertension the silent killer. Heavy drinking greatly increases the risks.
How Many Calories Are in That Drink?
Learn how many calories some common alcoholic drinks contain.
Wet Brain – Alcoholism and Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome
Long years of heavy drinking may lead to a thiamine deficiency, and a syndrome known as Wernicke-Korsakoff (wet brain). Much of the brain damage experienced is unfortunately irreversible.
Parents - Prevent Drinking to Prevent Developmental Brain Damage
Adolescents are burdened with a still developing brain that’s uniquely at risk to alcohol overexposure - but that still developing brain is also very attracted to experimentation and thrill seeking, it isn’t as affected by the negatives of alcohol (teens don’t get as sleepy when drinking or as hung over after the fact) and it isn’t as capable of higher order decision making. All in all, it’s a bad combination and because of this, parental prevention efforts are very important. Parents who can prevent underage alcohol abuse can prevent developmental brain damage.