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What can you get from drinking alcohol too much?

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Alcohol toxicity: Alcohol is toxic to every organ in the body. The added risk is developing alcoholism.

Answered 3/8/2021

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Dr. Susan Uhrich answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Death: By car accident, by fire (fall asleep with a lit cigarette), by dementia, but cirrhosis of the liver and a host of other ways. Is this how you want to leave this planiet?

Dr Altman agreed

Answered 1/11/2018

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