If you use Alcohol it can make you:

• Feel light headed
• Feel a false sense of confidence
• Laugh a lot (often at things which aren’t that funny)
• Say things you wouldn’t normally
• Become over friendly and too trusting of others
• Become stupid and silly
• Feel sick and throw up
• Have double vision
• Lose your balance and make you unsteady on your feet
• Cry and get upset or over emotional
• Feel over sensitive to harmless comments
• Make a fool of yourself
• Fall asleep and pass out
• Become depressed
• Become aggressive
• Become angry
• Become violent
• Have an accident e.g. get run over, fall over and hurt yourself
• Have a hangover

There are lots of people who go out and drink. Many of them will not come to any serious harm. But there are the cases that are more serious. The following are some of the consequences of drinking alcohol:

A hangover - It is basically feeling like death. Many people have a head and/or stomach ache, some might throw up, you feel tired and sort of like you have the flu. It does pass but a lot of people swear they will never drink again (but a lot do!).

Whack - If you have been drinking alcohol it can make you more vulnerable. You could end up getting beaten up or attacked by strangers without doing anything at all to them. There is also the possibly that drunken friends, whose judgement has been messed up through drinking, might have a go at you as well.

What was I thinking - Alcohol can really mess up the way you think. It can cause people to do stuff they would never normally do and they really regret it when the drink wears off.

Fight the world - Some people’s moods change really quickly if they have been drinking. They can go from happy to sad and quiet to violent really fast and you never know how the alcohol will really affect someone till they've drunk it. It doesn't make someone violent but it can make them lose control a lot easier and forget that little voice in their head that tells them to stop.

Don’t have too much - if you feel you’ve had enough don’t let anyone fob you off with “just one more won’t hurt”. Any drug can make you do things you wouldn’t normally do,
slow down your reactions, make you pass out etc. All of these leave you vulnerable to theft, attack, rape or choking on your own vomit.

It also takes a while for the alcohol to get in your blood so you might drink too much without feeling the effects too much but when it does kick in then it can be a problem.

Gamble - Alcohol can affect you differently each time you drink it and you never really know what’s going to happen. Sometimes it's too late to do anything because you're already drunk so use your head and don't have too much.. or just don't drink!

Be careful - If you are going to drink remember to be safe. Drinking on the street is asking for trouble as anything could happen including the police taking you home and you getting in trouble.