Long-Term Alcohol Abuse Effects

Drinking Alcohol once or twice in a year would probably do us no significant harm. But most of us who do drink, do it a lot more often than that!

Regularly having more than two drinks a day increases the risk of developing alcoholism, alcoholic liver disease, and some forms of cancer.

Having between one to two alcoholic drinks a day has been shown to have positive effects on health, unless contraindicated,chiefly because of its cardiovascular effects.

A few researchers have questioned the extent of positive effects as most studies compare moderate drinkers health to non-drinkers, but fail to take into account the number of people who abstain because they are already ill, rather than lack of alcohol causing their ill-health.