SOME PHYSICAL PROBLEMS CAUSED BY HEAVYDRINKING:

• Permanent memory loss.
• Dementia.
• High blood pressure.
• Stomach ulcers.
• Strange sensations in feet and hands - typically pins and needles.
• Loss of all sensation in feet and hands.
• Wasting of thigh muscles.
• Skin complaints such as psoriasis and dermatitis.
• Impotence and erectile failure.
• Road traffic and other accidents (often fatal).
• Liver disease (sometimes fatal).
• Pancreatitis (sometimes fatal).
• Fertility problems and foetal malformations (often fatal for the foetus).
• Brain damage (sometimes fatal).
• Epilepsy and fits (sometimes fatal).
• Heart attacks (often fatal).
• Vascular disease and amputations (sometimes fatal).
• Vomiting blood (sometimes fatal).
• Bleeding from the rectum (sometimes fatal).

Now that's a long list, and you will never experience all of these problems at any one time. Only you can decide how many risks you want to take. Remember only this: the more you drink, the more likely you are to experience an increasing number of these problems.

The healthy drinking limits apply to all of us, whether or not we require detoxification. However, there is an additional problem for you over and above the immediate health risks if you have already become physically addicted to alcohol. This problem is known as: