... alcohol effects. Cancer can be in the following regions: throat, mouth, voice box (larynx), liver, breast, colon, and esophagus. Alcohol also affects the nervous system. It weakens your muscles and makes you somewhat sleepy. Other complications include: digestive-system problems, ulcers, and if you are taking any pain killer medication and drinking alcohol you may be at risk for very serious liver damage ... is 10%. Four to five drinks, in one hour, affects the entire cerebrum, hearing and all of the above. BAC is 15%. Eight to ten drinks, per hour, affects limbic system, heart and resp...

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... next stage has a persons blood alcohol level at 0.25-0.40. At this level a person has very little response to stimuli. Vomiting occurs as well as the loss of control of digestive system, if you know what I mean. At this point people have the inability to walk and sometimes become unconsciousness. Coma, which is the next to last stage can possibly lead to ... ...

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... . Not many people know about this common condition. According to Webster's dictionary the definition of alcoholism is the psychophysiological dependence on alcoholic beverages; a chronic, disease, mainly effecting the nervous and digestive system, caused by the excessive and habitual use of alcohol. Kenneth Blum, in his article "Alcoholism is a Genetically Inherited Disease-, provides logical appeals to support his claim, therefore, making a sound argument ... ...

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... calories" may allow the alcoholic to feel satisfied while actually progressing toward a state of serious malnutrition. Ailments that can result from alcohol consumption include cirrhosis, a liver ailment; diseases of the digestive system; damage to the heart; lowered resistance to infection; and cancer (larynx, esophagus, liver). Women who consume alcohol during pregnancy are at risk of delivering children with fetal alcohol syndrome, a syndrome ... ...

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