What are the short-term effects of binge drinking?
Each instance of binge drinking can cause these problems:
- Hangover -- headache, intense thirst, nausea, vomiting, extreme sensitivity to light and noise, blurry vision, shakiness, and exhaustion
- Loss of consciousness
- Falling or running into things, causing injury or death
- Inability to make good decisions
- Unplanned and/or unsafe sexual activity
- Increased risk of sexual assault
- Getting into trouble with authorities
- Damaging property
- Behaving aggressively and getting into fights
- Alcohol poisoning -- nausea and/or vomiting; can progress to unconsciousness, coma, or death
- Respiratory arrest
- Choking to death on vomit
- Sudden death from stroke
- Increased risk of drowning
- Loss of reasoning ability, movement control, and reaction speed -- all of which make you deadly behind the wheel of a car
- Ten hours after you "sober up" your reasoning ability, movement control, and reaction speed are still limited!!
