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Short-term
Effects
What
are the short-term effects of binge drinking?
Each
instance of binge drinking can cause these problems:
- Hangover
-- headache, intense thirst, nausea, vomiting, extreme sensitivity
to light and noise, blurry vision, shakiness, and exhaustion
- Loss
of consciousness
- Falling
or running into things, causing injury or death
- Inability
to make good decisions
- Unplanned
and/or unsafe sexual activity
- Increased
risk of sexual assault
- Getting
into trouble with authorities
- Damaging
property
- Behaving
aggressively and getting into fights
- Alcohol
poisoning -- nausea and/or vomiting; can progress to unconsciousness,
coma, or death
- Respiratory
arrest
- Choking
to death on vomit
- Sudden
death from stroke
- Increased
risk of drowning
- Loss
of reasoning ability, movement control, and reaction speed
-- all of which make you deadly behind the wheel
of a car
- Ten
hours after you "sober up" your reasoning ability,
movement control, and reaction speed are still limited!!
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