Perverse social effects of alcohol abuse

Excessive drinking leads to emotional instability, which inevitably affects interpersonal relationships, whether within a group of friends, a couple or a family, or during professional or recreational activities.

Alcohol consumption reduces productivity, and excessive drinkers are more likely to be absent from work due to illness than other workers, even if the abuse is occasional. It's easy to imagine, then, that episodes of excessive drinking by students have the same kind of effects on their results and their academic careers..

Alcohol abuse can also have repercussions on relationships (idle conversations, irresponsible behaviour, sexual problems, violence...). Alcoholism is at the root of many divorces or, on the contrary, of a "co-dependency" phenomenon in which the drinker's partner unwittingly contributes to perpetuating the situation through his or her efforts to hide or compensate for it.