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  • "Everyone drinks heavily at parties so they can relax and hang out." REALITY: Though many people use alcohol to help themselves loosen up in social situations, if you'd stop drinking for a sec to take a closer look, you'd realize that most people aren't drinking heavily. There are only a few people who really get trashed at parties, lose control, embarrass themselves, or endanger their lives.
  • A major problem in regard to alcoholism in the United States is the lack of recognition of alcohol problems and intervention in regard to patients by physicians and other medical clinicians throughout this country.
  • Alcohol use depresses the nerves that control involuntary actions such as breathing and the gag reflex, which is in place to prevent an individual from choking ; a fatal dose of alcohol may eventually stop these functions altogether.
  • Drinking fewer than five standard alcoholic drinks per day, one or more times a week, has been found to reduce survival among patients with HIV by more than 1 year.

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