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Your liver is a critical organ; it helps filter poisons out of the blood and makes body-building proteins. Your liver breaks down alcohol so that your body can get rid of it. Heavy drinking over a long period of time can permanently damage your liver, causing a disease called cirrhosis.

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Drinking a lot of alcohol over a long period of time makes it more difficult for the body to soak up bone-building calcium. Eventually, that makes the bones thinner and easier to brake.

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Alcohol can blur your eye site. Your pupils may get small, making it difficult for your eyes to adjust to light.

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How Alcohol Hurts Your Vision | Eye Wonder

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Drinking alcohol can give your skin a red appearance similar to bleaching because it allows more blood to flow near the skin surface. Drinking a lot of alcohol over a long period of time can cause acne to become worse and make your skin look puffy.

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Drinking alcohol causes your body to produce more urine, making your kidneys work overtime. Heavy drinking over a long period of time may lead to kidney failure.

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Alcohol can give you an upset stomach because it makes you produce more stomach acid. Drinking a lot of alcohol over a long period of times can damage the lining of the stomach- causing ulcers or stomach cancer.

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Alcohol causes the heart to slow. Heavy drinking over a long period of time can also increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure.

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when a person drinks alcohol, it is absorbed into the bloodstream within minutes and affects nearly every organ in the body

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- Cerebral Cortex: This is the main area involved in thinking, decision-making, emotions, and the five senses. Alcohol's frets on this and can impair your ability to think clearly and lower your inhibitions. It may make you act without thinking or making you angry for no reason. Alcohol may affect your senses, such as blurring your vision. Long-term alcohol abuse can permanently damage this region.
- Cerebellum: This part of the brain is important for coordinating many of your daily movements, such as walking and grabbing objects. Alcohol can slow your reflexes. It may cause you to lose your balance or make your hands shake.
- Medulla: Involuntary processes, such as breathing and maintaining body temperature, are controlled here. Drinking a lot of alcohol at one time can shut down the medulla leading to a coma.
- Central Nervous System: Alcohol slows down this system, which is made up of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves. That affects on how signals flow through your body, making you think, speak, and move more slowly.
- Hypothalamus: Many body processes, such as heart rate and the feeling of hunger or thirst, are controlled in this small area. Alcohol can slow your heart rate and may make you hungrier or thirsty.
-Hippocampus: Your memory is controlled by the hippocampus. Drinking a lot of alcohol at one time can cause you to blackout, or forget a period of time. Long-term alcohol abuse can permanently damage the hippocampus, making it difficult for a person to learn.

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Drinking alcohol affects the way your brain works: Changing everything from the way you act to your ability to walk. Some effects can be long-lasting.

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- Alcohol: A depressant drug found in drinks such as beer, wine, and whisky.
- Alcoholic: A person who is addicted to alcohol.
- Alcoholism: The disease in which a person is addicted to alcohol.

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People drink to socialize, celebrate, and relax. Alcohol often has a strong effect on people and throughout history people have struggled to understand, and manage alcohols power.

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- Ears: Children who are exposed to secondhand smoke have more ear infections. Germs get into the pocket of air behind the eardrum. That causes fluid to build up in the pocket, which leads to pain.
- Brain: Nicotine can reach the brain within seconds after a person smokes or uses tobacco. The chemical changes the way signals in the brain are processed. It can make people feel more alert or feel a sense of pleasure. But nicotine is addictive. When the affects of nicotine wear off, people feel a strong need to get more, that's why it can be very difficult to stop smoking once you start.
- Tongue: Your tongue is covered In taste buds. these cells detect the flavors in food. Using tabacco products can damage the taste buds. People who smoke may not be able to taste as well as nonsmokers. Exposer to the chemicals from the use of the tabacco products can also cause cancer of the tongue and mouth.
- Lungs: The chemicals in smoke enter the pathways in the lungs where the oxygen from the air. The damage can make it more difficult to breath and cause a permanent caugh. Children who breath in smoke are more likely to get illnesses such as pneumonia and bronchitis. The chemicals can also damage cells in the lungs and cause cancer.
- Blood and Heart: Chemicals in tobacco smoke can change the way your blood flows. They also damage the vessels that carry blood through your body. These changes can cause your heart to beat harder and faster. That can increase a persons risk of heart attack.

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Cycle of Drug abuse leading to addiction/ consequences of addiction

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Cycle of Drug abuse leading to addiction/ consequences of addiction

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1) The experimenter tries the drug because of curiosity/ peer pressure.
2) The user trusts the feeling the drug provides, develops tolerance. Needs more to get the same effect.
3) The addict physically and mentally depends on the drug to feel "normal".
4) the consequences of  the drug leads to Death by overdose, Jail, and Withdrawal.

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- cancer is a disease in which unhealthy cells attack and destroy the body's normal cells.
- withdrawal is the body's reaction to not having a drug.

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- codeine: codeine is a prescription drug that reduces pain.
- narcotic: a narcotic is a drug that reduces pain and causes dependence
- cocaine: cocaine is an illegal drug that speeds up the nervous system. Its effects last a short time.
- tranquilizers: tranquilizers are prescription drugs that have a calming effect because they slow down the nervous system.
- crack: crack is a strong form of cocaine. people smoke crack.
- stimulants: stimulants are drugs that speed up the body's systems.
- inhalants: people sniff inhalants in order to have pleasent feelings.