Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Human Behavior



Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Human Behavior

Introduction

It is an established that the higher consumption of alcohol has negative impact on human health and causes diseases that are severe in nature such as morbidity, mortality, disability, craving, aggression anxiety, euphoria and loss of control. Researchers have concluded that the frequency of alcohol consumption and amount of consumption is of highly concern. The impact of alcohol consumption varies from the level of consumption. For example, there are to people where one used to drink more than the other person then it is obvious that the one with higher alcohol consumption habit is more vulnerable to diseases and negative outcomes than the one who used to drink less alcohol. The impact of alcohol consumption does vary from gender to gender (Wagner, 2003).



Discussion

Alcohol Consumption Level

Researchers claimed that the standard drink for women is 10 to 14 grams of absolute alcohol a day whereas for men the quantity of absolute alcohol is more and reach up to 20 to 28 grams a day. Therefore drinking alcohol beyond this level will surely be accounted as higher or over consumption and damage the person's thinking. According to researchers, there are five domains that can be used to identify a measuring tool for alcohol abuse. These five domains are consumption level, legal and social problems that arise due to alcohol usage, affect on health due to alcohol, level of addictedness and the self recognition of problem (Gust, 1990). 



It is a well defined and widely accepted fact that the consumption of alcohol has negative impact on thinking process of a person. But in order to identify the level of consumption of alcohol that influence the thinking process of person, we need to look at several other factors such as body, weight, gender, quality and quantity of food and the duration of drinking episode. These factors must be considered when determining the amount of alcohol required to reach at Alcohol Concentration Level which is 0.08.

If a person started drinking more frequently and in large quantities than it is possible that he will be exposed to serious health and mantle problems. The excessive usage of alcohol can cause carving, loss in term of control of body parts and thought process. The higher use of alcohol also leads towards higher level of aggression. According to surveys, researchers claimed that aggression is associated with alcohol consumption. There are two types of aggression such as verbal and physical aggression. Aggression is the most negative outcome of excessive drinking. In case of verbal aggression, one with higher dose of alcohol is expected to speak more and more and use abusive language. If the heavy dose drunker is expressing his or her aggression in physical form then the chances of occurring harmful event are high. These types of aggression hurt others and can cause injury to the drunker himself (Gust, 1990). 



Impact on Male and Female

The level of consumption does vary in case of gender ...