what are the Disadvantages of alcohol.

Most people who have alcohol-related health problems aren’t alcoholics. They're simply people who have regularly drunk more than the recommended levels for some years.

Higher-risk drinkers

If you’re in this group, you have an even higher risk of damaging your health compared with increasing-risk drinkers.

Higher-risk drinking is:

Regularly drinking more than 8 units a day or 50 units a week if you're a man

Regularly drinking more than 6 units a day or 35 units a week if you're a woman 

Again, alcohol affects the whole body and can play a role in numerous medical conditions. You have a much higher risk of developing alcohol-related health problems. Your body has probably suffered some damage already, even if you’re not yet aware of it.

Compared to non-drinkers, if you regularly drink above higher-risk levels: 

You could be 3 to 5 times more likely to get cancer of the mouth, neck and throat.You could be 3 to 10 times more likely to develop liver cirrhosis.

Men could have four times the risk of having high blood pressure, and women are at least twice as likely to develop it.

You could be twice as likely to have an irregular heartbeat.Women are around 1.5 times as likely to get breast cancer.