How Alcohol affects family
When one goes through alcohol problems; harmful effects cost dearly and not only on the drinker, but also on the family members. Drinkers often have a blind-spot regarding the desolating effects alcohol can have on their families. USA recent data show that in four children, one is exposed to alcohol abusers in the family. One of the clearest examples of how negatively alcohol affects family is the widely recognized connection between alcohol use and violent behavior. Some of family issues that linked with alcohol use include;
- Violent behavior – smacking, hitting, beating and throwing items.
- Marital fights – separation, obnoxious arguments, silent treatments.
- Unfaithfulness – Couples cheating on each other because they lack love and care.
- Resentment and jealousy
- Financial instabilities – joblessness, poor monetary decisions, misusing money
- Divorce – loneliness
- Deadly alcohol effect – drinking while expectant causing baby’s brain damage.
Drinking problems can harmfully change family functioning, and it also evident that they can augment family problems. So, family functioning and drinking alcohol are greatly and equally associated. Drinking causes more family problems, because as family problems get worse, drinking gets worse too; a sadistic cycle is created. This is why it is not surprising that alcohol issues are common in spouses seeking marital therapy (Sanders, 57).
How alcohol effects driving a car
Driving is an extremely intricate task which involves cautious decision making and absolute attentiveness. Alcohol has an effect on a driver’s facility to be wholly in control of his/her deeds: it impairs driving. Skills used in driving a motor a car are vision, steering, psychomotor skills, perception, information processing, and concentration.
To keep away from dangers involved, alcohol ought to be avoided every time one is driving. Safe driving necessitates the driver to be attentive to several things at once and have the ability to react promptly when something sudden occurs. All drivers should:
- to be mentally vigilant;
- coordinate physically
- have the ability to respond aptly
- have clear and good vision
Risk of accidents can occur if there is impairment of the above driving skills. Risks of driving while drunk increases because;
- The driver takes more time to respond, particularly during emergency situations.
- The facility to think clearly is diminished, hence making it hard to execute numerous tasks required so as to drive carefully;
- The driver’s ability to concentrate is also lessened, and they end up not noticing other users of roads thus causing accidents.
- Some dunk drivers may also have unclear vision and poor hearing ability.
Some other general alcohol effects include feeling sure and overly confident, and this makes drunk drivers to take more risks. Others feel more stress-free and at-ease and this may make them fall asleep while driving. A drinker may think they can change their manner of driving to counterbalance their impairment to their driving skill; but, this is a risky tactic.
Driving ought to be taken seriously because a slight mistake can cause lives. Drinking and driving is unbecoming and reckless; driving is more than just moving a car and so drivers should make sure that they are attentive and cautious enough. Drinking impairs driving skills and so people should not drink and drive (Mendralla, 25).
How alcohol effects work
Alcohol abusers cannot deliver quality work in their work place. At work people should behave properly and carry out their duties by the book; but when one is drunk this cannot be achieved. Alcohol has an effect on the level of preparedness and attentiveness that a person normally has and so working under such condition is almost impossible.
When drunk, there is an increase of making increase and this can risk one’s job, because some mistakes can bring serious losses. For example an accountant should be very careful with his/her work because mostly they handle finances, with the slightest mistake this can cause serious problems.
Working requires alertness and so people should not go to work when drunk; this is inconsiderate and immature. Drinking before going to work or during work hours can have an effect on the safety of people working around you especially in companies where there are dangerous chemicals or handling unsafe tools.
This irresponsibility can cause people’s lives and so it is always important to make conscientious decisions. Drinking should go hand in hand with responsibility; some people even miss work because they drank too much, fell asleep and forgot all about it. Alcohol can cause a drinker problems and his/her entire place of work (United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, 61).
Risking people’s life because of being irresponsible should not be cordoned. Duties cannot be carried out properly by an alcohol abuser, people ought to be in their right minds during working hours. Pilots for instance are supposed to stay away from alcohol 24 hrs prior-to their next flight. This ensures that they are alert and physically cautious because their work involves people’s safety.
Doctors and health-care givers should also be careful because people’s lives are always in their hands. Some jobs do not have room for irresponsible drinking. People should take their jobs seriously no matter how insignificant they may seem. This shows that one is responsible enough and takes his/her work seriously.
What are benefits from alcohol?
Alcohol has many disadvantages however there are well-established benefits. People who drink moderately are likely to live longer and have better body health compared to those who drink a lot and those who abstain.
Besides having lesser heart problems, people who drink alcoholic beverages such as wine, beer or liquor moderately are in-general less likely to acquire illnesses like diabetes, enlarged prostate, strokes, dementia, heart attacks and other types of cancers. It is also confirmed that moderate drinkers enjoy life more because they have better health compared those who abstain or those who drink heavily.
Medical professionals have established and confirmed a great connection existing between moderate consumers of alcohol and general decrease in cardiovascular ailment and also coronary artery illness. Moderate drinking is helpful in reducing heart complications; this was established by The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
This is significant because cardiovascular illness is among the killing diseases in the United States of America and also heart complications kill approximately one million Americans annually. Moderate drinking has helped in reducing these cases. Alcohol is not entirely harmful as long the consumer is taking it moderately. People without self-control end up drinking a lot and harm either themselves or other people (Sienkiewicz Sizer, 98).
According to medical experts, moderation is taking one-three drinks in a day. Drinking less than half a drink brings about little or no health benefits. Four to five drinks can be moderate for big bodied people but a little bit more for smaller or lighter individuals.
Due to their general body size and some other biological variations, a typical woman is advised to take 25%-30% less than an average male. Additionally, people recovering from alcohol problems, those with unpleasant reactions to drinking and those who have been advised by their doctors not to consume alcohol should abstain (Gifford, 87).
Works Cited
Gifford, Maria. Alcoholism. ABC-CLIO: USA, 2009. Print
Mendralla, Valerie. Drinking and Driving. Now What? The Rosen Publishing Group: New York, 2011. Print
Sienkiewicz Sizer, Frances. Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies: Chicago, Cengage Learning, 2011. Print
Sanders, Pete. Drinking Alcohol. Stargazer Books: California, 2005. Print
United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention. Alcohol and drug problems at work: the shift to prevention. International Labor Organization: USA, 2003.