Negative Effects of Alcoholism

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Dr. Bernardo Savariego. I'm a medical doctor specializing in addiction psychiatry in Miami, Florida. Okay let's talk a little bit about the negative effects of alcohol. First, you have the physical effects, which is the alcohol is very unhealthy and damages the body. You're talking about the liver. You're talking about the stomach, gastritis, esophogeal cancer. You're talking about brain damage and dementia, alcoholic dementia like corso coph. And that's one part. The next part is alcohol can be very damaging socially. For a person sometimes, alcohol is responsible for a great deal of violence. People will do things under the influence of alcohol, that they may not do if they were sober. Alcohol affects your work, absenteeism. People who are alcoholics will very frequently lose their jobs... affects your marriage, affects your family. Alcohol sometimes results in unwanted pregnancies because of poor judgment in situations that sometimes people make for the drink. And alcohol... this inhibits your brain and it impairs your judgment. That causes problems."