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Binge Drinking

Getting very drunk can affect your physical and mental health:

Accidents and falls are common because being drunk affects your balance and co-ordination. You’re also more likely to suffer head, hand and facial injuries. Binge drinking has also been linked to self-harm .

In extreme cases, you could die. Overdosing on alcohol can stop you breathing or stop your heart, or you could choke on your vomit.

Nearly a third (29%) of alcohol related deaths are a result of alcohol related accidents. These deaths are more common among 16–34-year-olds.

Binge drinking can affect your mood and your memory and in the longer term can lead to serious mental health problems.

More commonly, binge drinking can lead to anti-social, aggressive and violent behaviour.

Alcohol is a factor in:

One in three (30%) sexual offences One in three (33%) burglaries

One in two (50%) street crimes.

One of the Effects of Drinking Alcohol & driving is to have an accident in the car.

ObesityWhat obesity does

EXCESS fat puts a physical strain on the body and affects the metabolism.

Here are some of the dangers associated with being too heavy:

Raised cholesterol levels, high blood pressure, increased risk of heart disease and stroke, diabetes, back pain, arthritis, shortness of breath, snoring and sleep apnoea syndrome, increased risk of cancer, fertility problems, period problems and excess hairiness in women, liver disease, gallstones, incontinence, varicose veins, piles, DVT, miscarriage.

Anorexia

Drugs

The facts and figures around Mental Health in the UK are alarming.

1 in 4 people will experience some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year

Mixed anxiety and depression is the most common mental disorder in Britain

Women are more likely to have been treated for a mental health problem than men

About 10% of children have a mental health problem at any one time

Depression affects 1 in 5 older people

Suicides rates show that British men are three times as likely to die by suicide than British women

Self-harm statistics for the UK show one of the highest rates in Europe: 400 per 100,000 population

Only 1 in 10 prisoners has no mental disorder