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Short-term
Effects
What
are the short-term effects of drinking?
Drinking
alcohol can have these effects, varying with the amount the
person drinks:
- Slower
reaction times and reflexes.
- Heavy
sweating.
- Blurry
or double vision.
- Nausea
and vomiting.
- Lowered
reasoning ability.
- Lower
inhibitions (doing or saying things you otherwise would
not.)
- Poor
motor coordination.
- Inability
to drive a car.
- Slowed
heart rate.
- Slowed
breathing rate.
- Reduced
blood pressure.
- Anxiety,
restlessness.
- Mental
confusion.
- Memory
loss.
- Coma
- Death
from respiratory arrest.
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