{"id":4229,"date":"2015-04-03T14:04:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T18:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2015-03-12T14:20:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T18:20:05","slug":"april-is-alcohol-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/uncategorized\/april-is-alcohol-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"April is Alcohol Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/files\/2015\/03\/Alcohol-awareness.jpg\" class=\"broken_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4230\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/files\/2015\/03\/Alcohol-awareness.jpg\" alt=\"Alcohol awareness\" width=\"197\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niaaa.nih.gov\/alcohol-health\/overview-alcohol-consumption\" class=\"broken_link\">Overview of Alcohol Consumption <\/a><\/h1>\n<div id=\"block-system-main\" class=\"block block-system block-main block-system-main odd block-without-title\">\n<div class=\"content clearfix\">\n<div id=\"node-page-87\" class=\"node node-page node-published node-not-promoted node-not-sticky author-aaniaaausr1 odd clearfix\">\n<div class=\"content clearfix\">\n<div class=\"main-content\">\n<p>People drink to socialize, celebrate, and relax.\u00a0 Alcohol often has a strong effect on people \u2013 and throughout history, we\u2019ve struggled to understand and manage alcohol\u2019s power.\u00a0 Why does alcohol cause us to act and feel differently?\u00a0 How much is too much? Why do some people become addicted while others do not?<\/p>\n<p>Here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niaaa.nih.gov\/\">NIAAA<\/a>, we are constantly researching the answers to these, and many other questions about alcohol.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what we know:<\/p>\n<p>Alcohol\u2019s effects vary from person to person, depending on a variety of factors, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How much you drink<\/li>\n<li>How often you drink<\/li>\n<li>Your age<\/li>\n<li>Your health status<\/li>\n<li>Your family history<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While drinking alcohol is itself not necessarily a problem \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niaaa.nih.gov\/alcohol-health\/overview-alcohol-consumption\/standard-drink\" class=\"broken_link\">drinking too much<\/a> can cause a range of consequences, and increase your risk for a variety of problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Consequences of drinking too much<\/strong><br \/>\nAlcohol enters your bloodstream as soon as you take your first sip. Alcohol\u2019s immediate effects can appear within about 10 minutes. As you drink, you increase your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) level, which is the amount of alcohol present in your bloodstream.\u00a0 The higher your BAC, the more impaired you become by alcohol\u2019s effects.\u00a0 These effects can include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduced inhibitions<\/li>\n<li>Slurred speech<\/li>\n<li>Motor impairment<\/li>\n<li>Confusion<\/li>\n<li>Memory problems<\/li>\n<li>Concentration problems<\/li>\n<li>Coma<\/li>\n<li>Breathing problems<\/li>\n<li>Death<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other risks of drinking can include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Car crashes and other accidents<\/li>\n<li>Risky behavior<\/li>\n<li>Violent behavior<\/li>\n<li>Suicide and homicide<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>People who drink too much over a long period of time may experience alcohol\u2019s longer-term effects, which can include:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niaaa.nih.gov\/alcohol-health\/overview-alcohol-consumption\/alcohol-use-disorders\">Alcohol dependence<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.niaaa.nih.gov\/alcohol-health\/alcohols-effects-body\" class=\"broken_link\">Health problems<\/a><br \/>\nIncreased risk for certain cancers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview of Alcohol Consumption People drink to socialize, celebrate, and relax.\u00a0 Alcohol often has a strong effect on people \u2013 and throughout history, we\u2019ve struggled to understand and manage alcohol\u2019s power.\u00a0 Why does alcohol cause us to act and feel &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/uncategorized\/april-is-alcohol-awareness-month\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paB9fc-16d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4232,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions\/4232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}