What can drugs and alcohol do to your body?

Answer 1

Here's how alcohol can affect your body:

Brain:

Alcohol interferes with the brain's communication pathways and can affect how the brain looks and works. These disruptions can change mood and behavior and make it harder to think clearly and move with coordination.

Heart:

Drinking a lot over a long time or too much on a single occasion can damage the heart, causing problems including:

Cardiomyopathy – Stretching and drooping of the heart muscle

Arrhythmias – Irregular heartbeat

Stroke

High blood pressure

Liver:

Heavy drinking takes a toll on the liver and can lead to a variety of problems and liver inflammations, including:

Steatosis, or fatty liver

Alcoholic hepatitis

Fibrosis

Cirrhosis

Pancreas:

Alcohol causes the pancreas to produce toxic substances that can eventually lead to pancreatitis, a dangerous inflammation and swelling of the blood vessels in the pancreas that prevents proper digestion.

Cancer:

Alcohol is a known carcinogen. This means that alcohol causes cancer. There is strong evidence that drinking alcohol increases people's risk of cancers of the female breast, liver, mouth, throat (pharynx and larynx), oesophagus, and bowel. Heavy drinking may also increase people's risk of stomach cancer.

Immune System:

Drinking too much can weaken your immune system, making it your body easier to target disease. Chronic drinkers are more liable to contract diseases like pneumonia and tuberculosis than people who do not drink too much. Drinking a lot on a single occasion slows your body's ability to ward off infections – even up to 24 hours after getting drunk.

Answer 2

alcohol can affect your body the same way that smoking can by hitting the inside of your body

another way it can affect your body is increasing varieety of diseases, damage an organ, loss of self control, memory lapses, slurred speech, loss of coordination, slowed reflexes, and can lead to coma or death

and dont prove me wrong i know this because of a progam at school called D.A.R.E even look on dare.com

Answer 3

Drugs and alchol affect your body really bad and if you ever take drugz i know that your mama would be very mad at you and she wouldn't let you out of the house cuz that iz what my mom would have done and 4 those who have a facebook go to your chat and type in (^^^) and <(") and see what happens!

Answer 4

There is a stupidly huge range of drugs that affect the human body, and they sometimes have widely different, often opposite, effects. Listing al of such possible effects would be pointless and difficult. Please ask the question again, referring to the specific drug you wish to know about.

Answer 5

the alcohol poisons the red blood cells and basically kills you if you consume too much of it.

Answer 6

the constant use of drugs and alcohol trigger different conditions as fibrosis, and affect your brain directly and it is very devastating for the persons budget.

Answer 7

That is entirely dependant on which drug you are referring to. Keep in mind that alcohol is a drug and that 'drugs' is a broad umbrella term not referring to any one substance.

Answer 8

Drugs and alcohol can damage your voice and your nerves. They can make you feel very weak as well. You could lose color and your body will start to sag. Hope this helps!