SEC-S13 / W5 | "How can alcohol cause damage to your health! 🍺"

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Just sip a little. You can't be a kid forever, Dave told Fred. You're of age and you can't man up. Your mates are drinking 5 bottles of Beer but you're struggling with one. See, you need to learn how to become a man because drinking these will make you active and authoritative. Fred manage to finish a bottle. He was given another of which he struggled with. In no time, Fred felt the whole world was on top of his head.

His thoughts and thinking change and his brain was just spinning. Fred wasn't aware of his environment and slept off. He woke up seeing himself on a bed with a lady beside him. He was shocked but couldn't remember anything that happened. He was raped. He regretted falling into pressure to consume alcoholic drinks when he knew he didn't just have the strength of capacity. Is there more to this topic? Yes.

When we say someone is an alcoholic, it doesn't mean a person who drinks alcohol as almost everyone drinks but a person who takes drinking as a hobby. He doesn't control his intake of this alcohol and it becomes a problem. Why do I say so? When someone makes it a habit or pattern of consuming alcohol excessively leading to negative effects in body metabolism, lifestyle and mental well-being, he's therefore an alcoholic.

Let's take an instance of Food. People who eat food in moderation and people food excessively and classified as gluttons are different people. A person who eats excessively at all times and makes it a habit can be called a foodie.

So a person who consumes alcohol excessively, uncontrollably and makes it a habit which leads to addiction is called an alcoholic. So we shouldn't see anyone taking in alcohol and then judge the person as an alcoholic. It is sometimes difficult and easy to know who an alcoholic is.

I personally won't go into details as I'll use logic to explain this. I'll consider alcohol a drug because from the definition of drugs in chemistry terms, is any chemical substances when introduced into the body alters both positively and negatively the physiological function of the body.

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This best explains alcohol too as it involves mixtures of certain chemical compounds that can be good and bad to the body depending on how it's used. If one takes drugs in overdose, we all know there's a big effect. So if one takes alcohol excessively in overdose, it may lead to detriments in one's health be in imminently or on the long run.

It can be a disease mentally which affects the central nervous system which also affect one's behaviour and lifestyle. Just as it's said smokers are liable to die young and they do have heart and liver failure in most cases, alcohol can act that way if taken excessively and not in moderation. It's said too much of everything is a disease. This is very much applicable as alcohol can affect one's liver and heart can be affected. Stroke and high blood pressure can result.

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How to control? Alcoholics can actually break free from this habit even though it's late by meeting a therapist and psychologist to aid his brain health. He should also stay aware of quit friends who indulge in excessive drinking. This will also help him quit such practice. Same with those who are non-alcoholics. Drinking is not bad but should be controlled.

I'll say no because I'm a drinker but I do so in moderation. This doesn't make me an alcoholic. As explained earlier, an alcoholic is one who drinks excessively without control and the aftermath is seen in his behaviour as this alcohol can change one's perspective and lifestyle. It's not that alcohol is bad. It's the use of this alcohol by people that makes it bad. So when you see someone drink, don't judge that person of him being an alcoholic. Everything in life is dependent on the person.

In conclusion, alcohol was and is still one of the best medicine to stomach ache and body pains. Many need this alcohol to be active to go to work while some may fumble when they drink just a bottle. If you body system can't carry, don't force yourself of be pressurised to do so. Quit from friends who make it a habit as this can have influence on us as well. While we stay healthy, let's minimise the intake of alcohol.

I invite @emmy01, @josepha and @artist1111