[AdSense-A]Mixing alcohol with driving is not just foolhardy but also a decision that can prove to be quite fatal for your life. One needs to remember that alcohol is a depressant which affects your reaction time, coordination, vision, judgement as well decision making ability quite adversely. How can one even think about driving safely after drinking when you cannot even see, think or move around or react quickly? Driving under the influence of alcohol is often the top reason of car crashes and accidents. Drinking and driving can be considered the most dangerous teen alcohol abuse effects.
Driving is a task that requires you to be extremely alert and responsible; one needs to have quick reflexes, great multitasking skills as well as accurate perception. Even one drink can turn the safest of driver into a irresponsible one.
Alcohol not only affects your driving but it can also has adverse effect in the long term as well as short term.
5 Top Long Term Effects of Alcohol Abuse in Teens
Potential for loss of life and liberty, serious injury caused by driving while impaired
Heavy drinking can also lead to alcohol poisoning and even death
Disruption of normal brain development
Anemia that is caused due to low levels of Vitamin B and iron
Long term use leads to alcoholism
Other Long Term Effects of Alcohol Abuse
Damage to liver or cirrhosis of liver
Failure and destruction of organs as well as stomach and intestinal ulcers
Increased blood pressure that can lead to strokes and heart disease
Male sperm production decrease
Decrease brain mass and brain cells die
If a pregnant mother is an alcoholic it can lead to alcohol syndrome in unborn child
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