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CASES - Community Alcohol Screening Educational Services
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Long Term Effects of Drinking
- Long-term brain damage including long-term memory loss, poor concentration and behavioural problems.
- Obesity
- High blood pressure
- Heart disease
- Irreversible liver damage
- Increased risk of cancer
- Damage to your digestive system
- Problems with sex
- Reduced fertility
- Alcohol dependency is the most common addiction in the UK. It affects up to 9.7% of adults and is responsible for thousands of deaths.
- Depression. Alcohol is a depressant and is linked to many disorders including clinical depression. An estimated 65% of suicides are accompanied by long-term drinking problems
