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Drinking is not bad as some people perceive it to be, however overdoing it may cause you a lot of problems, especially health side effects.
As it has been said before, too much of something can be poisonous, its therefore important to regulate your drinking and the number of times that you drink to avoid the following side effects.
Heavy and too much drinking can lead to exposure of getting high blood pressure which is not a good condition for anyone to have or be affected by it.Treating it might prove to be futile and even when it gets treated, it is expensive, from the drugs to the maintenance.
It reduces the effectiveness of your immune system, for your body to offer you protection against diseases, it needs to be in a condition where it can function normally when this does not happen then the chances of it protecting you from diseases and infections are very high.
Something else that is very dangerous and comes with heavy drinking is the temporary loss of memory.You will not remember what happened when you got drunk which can make you a target for someone who wants to harm you.Although in rare circumstances, others lose their memories for a long-term period.
Heavy drinking can also send you into a coma for a longtime or even led to death after being unconscious for a very long time.You should be disciplined enough to know the level of alcohol you can handle to avoid getting into such problems.