What are the short-term effects of drinking?
Drinking alcohol can have these effects, varying with the amount the person drinks:
- Slower reaction times and reflexes.
- Heavy sweating.
- Blurry or double vision.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Lowered reasoning ability.
- Lower inhibitions (doing or saying things you otherwise would not.)
- Poor motor coordination.
- Inability to drive a car.
- Slowed heart rate.
- Slowed breathing rate.
- Reduced blood pressure.
- Anxiety, restlessness.
- Mental confusion.
- Memory loss.
- Coma
- Death from respiratory arrest.
