Alcohol

Alcohol

Alcohol as we saw in the video is a rather social drink however if used in correctly can be very harmful for you. Firstly you have to recognize whether you are a social drinker or problem drinker. Problem drinkers use alcohol to drown out their pain but drinking doesn’t solve any problems it just numbs you temporarily. Most problem drinkers are in denial and do not want to except yet another problem, however if you are a good friend you should send help to them, and the movie did offer some help which I found outstanding. Secondly, even if you are not a problem drinker alcohol can still become bad for you. When you begin drinking, you begin to slur words and your coordination weakens. Guys tend to behave more in accordance with the emotion they are feeling, so if they are enraged, they become more violent than they would be if they weren’t drinking. Women tend to do stuff they later on regret. It also leads to un protected sex, your reaction time is slower, and the worst part is, you are usually drunker than you know you are since it takes time for your brain to process the alcohol so it doesn’t take affect till more time passes. People who are drunk believe that they are capable of driving but they actually aren’t and alcohol weakens your judgment. This isn’t the worst that alcohol can do to you, if you drink too much, even though this isn’t usually the case you can even die or go into a coma since alcohol shuts down the part of your brain which controls breathing. This is called alcohol poisoning. To sober someone up, a cold shower and coffee will not do much of an effect. The best way to get sober is to wait. It takes approximately 1 hour per drink to process the alcohol. If you are around someone who has passed out, the worst thing to do is leave them lying there, since sometimes they never do wake up because they cannot breathe. The quickest thing you can do is hit them several times so they wake up, if they do not wake up, take them to the...