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Effects of Alcohol

Ethyl alcohol (ethanol) is known as alcohol. It is made by fermenting starch or sugar into different fruits and grains. Beer (usually about 5% alcohol), wine (usually 12 to 15% alcohol), and hard liquor (which is about 45% alcohol), are alcoholic beverages that are made by fermentation and distillation(1). Alcohol can lead to serious physical damage in all systems of the body, the most serious in the cardiovascular system, the nervous system and the liver. In these three areas the damage may eventually prove fatal(5).
Alcohol use can start to put a strain on family life. Situations or issues that were once important often times lose there value once alcohol enters the family. Children are especially at risk of being neglected. Alcoholism is a disruptive element in the family environment: partner and children are inevitably subjected to its consequences (10). There is a strong correlation between parental alcoholism and their children’s conduct disorders. Disorders such a...

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