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Alcohol damages brains of all ages, as well. I don't write that to dispute the point of the article. However, many findings do dispute the age of adulthood.
by eMSF 7y ago
Alcohol damages brains of all ages, as well.
I don't write that to dispute the point of the article. However, many findings do dispute the age of adulthood.
- threeseed 7y agoOf course you wrote that to dispute the point of the article. Alcohol is not what is being discussed.
- ramraj07 7y agoDoes alcohol induce long-term damage on the brain in proper adults?
- arpa 7y agoAre you being sarcastic?
- krageon 7y agoI don't really see where the humour is here, so just on the off chance you genuinely don't know: Yes, it does.
- DanBC 7y agoYes. It has an acronym - ARBD (alcohol related brain damage). It includes things like Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (also called Korsakoff's Phychosis), and alcohol-related dementia. It's likely that younger people are more susceptible to alcohol related harm. People who drink heavily are at higher risk. This would be people who drink more than about 50 units a week for men, or 35 units per week for women. (Current safe drinking guidance is to drink no more than 14 units a week, spread out, with some days drink free). There are roughly 40 units in a litre bottle of spirits. 18 UK pints of 5% ABV beer would be 50 units. Over a week that might be 2 pints a day and a big session on friday and saturday. It's hard to know how many people drink this heavily because the stats are all self reported, people don't know what a unit is nor how strong the alcohol they drink is, and alcohol affects memory so people can't remember what they've drunk or when. But we think about 4% of men and 3% of women drink this much. https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/research/data/consumption-uk/ https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/research/data/consumption-uk/