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However, it is also easy, when drinking daily, to become habituated to alcohol's effects (consumption-induced tolerance). [69] Most people cannot accurately judge how much alcohol they are consuming, [70] particularly relative to the amounts specified in guidelines.
Binge drinking can lead to short-term effects such as alcohol poisoning, depression, unsafe driving, and anxiousness. It can also lead to long-term health effects, such as liver disease if done on ...
The level of ethanol consumption that minimizes the risk of disease, injury, and death is subject to some controversy. [16] Several studies have found a J-shaped relationship between alcohol consumption and health, [17] [18] [2] [19] meaning that risk is minimized at a certain (non-zero) consumption level, and drinking below or above this level increases risk, with the risk level of drinking a ...
Even light to moderate alcohol consumption can have negative effects on health, [8] [9] [10] such as by increasing a person's risk of developing several cancers. [11] [12] A 2014 World Health Organization (WHO) report found that harmful alcohol consumption caused about 3.3 million deaths annually worldwide. [13]
Alcoholism shares a robust relationship with dementia risk, and the correlative literature is getting stronger by the decade.. As of 2020, Alcohol-related brain damage (ARBD) is studied to affect ...
The prosuicidal effects of benzodiazepines are suspected to be due to a psychiatric disturbance caused by side effects or withdrawal symptoms. [11] Because benzodiazepines in general may be associated with increased suicide risk, care should be taken when prescribing, especially to at-risk patients.
Some antidepressants, including commonly prescribed ones from the class known as SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), can cause sexual side effects such as erectile dysfunction ...
In 2011, the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) convened an eleven-member multidisciplinary panel of experts in geriatric medicine, nursing, and pharmacotherapy to develop the 2012 edition of the American Geriatrics Society Updated Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults.