Research reveals the importance of
drinking patterns to alcohol outcomes.
For example, alcohol’s acute effects arise from drinking too
much, too fast. The resulting
impaired brain function can lead to unintentional death and/or
injury; violence and/or homicide; suicide; risky sexual behavior
and/or sexual assault; and vandalism and property damage.
Chronic effects comprising a broad array of organ
damage-related ailments caused by drinking too much, too often,
include cirrhosis of the liver; cardiovascular disease;
pancreatitis; dementia; plus at least another 50 disease entities
including alcohol dependence.
