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Help please? i want to know what are some of the health risks of alcoholism other then mantal health effects?

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Too many to count: Alcohol damages virtually every organ in the body, including brain damage and dementia, weakens heart muscle and causes arrhythmia, inflames the liver and causes hepatitis/cirrhosis, the stomach and causes gastritis, esophagitis and worsens ulcers, the immune system and increases infections. It also causes cancer of the head/neck and lung, liver cancer, breast cancer and colon cancer (and others).

Answered 2/18/2014

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