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Alcohol directly affects the brain. You must have heard people complaining about difficulty in walking, slurred speech, blurred vision, slow reaction time and impaired memory after having rounds of drinks at the local bar. However, many people who consume alcohol regularly may face severe consequences after they come out of the influence of alcohol. These consequences affect in the longer run and may damage the working of brain seriously. No wonder, affects of alcohol on the brain is among top subject of modern researchers.

Heavy drinking may leads to short-term as well as long-term effects on the brain, ranging from simple memory loss to more debilitating complications that may hamper throughout the life.

Following major factors are responsible to measure the extent of alcohol on the brain:

• The number of rounds a person drinks at a time.
• Drinking history of a person including at what age he/she started, how long the person has been drinking and others.
• Background of the person such as age, educational qualifications, gender, family history, genetic background etc
• Measuring risk factors if the concerned person is facing threats from prenatal alcohol exposure
• General health status of a person

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Statistics brought about in two thousand and ten have shown that over thirty percent of all drivers on the road will be involved in some sort of accident that involves drunk driving. Whether you are the driver of a vehicle, a passenger to a drunk driver, or an innocent driver out on the road, drunk driving can put all vehicle operators at risk for severe harm.

The frightening statistics begin with the fact that over forty percent of all deaths on the road are directly related to driving under the influence of alcohol. Thus far, in two thousand and eleven, it has been reported that someone is killed from driving under the influence approximately every forty-five seconds in the United States. Back in two thousand and eight, over twelve thousand individuals had lost their lives to the irresponsible behavior of driving drunk or being killed by an individual under the influence.

These statistics also do not figure in those who have been severely harmed during a drunk driving accident and have survived. Some have suffered loss of limbs, third degree burns to their skin, or partial to complete loss of mobility. Continue reading ‘The Facts About Drunk Driving’ »

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