There are many factors to be considered when looking at how alcohol will affect someone, for example age, size, pregnancy, mental health, mood, gender, medication and when they last ate. Any of these factors can influence how alcohol may affect an individual.

Facts about alcohol:

• Alcohol is a dangerous depressant drug.
• A depressant drug slows down signals from the brain telling the body what to do
• Alcohol affects every part of the body from head to toe.
• Alcohol can stop some medication from working properly.
• Males clean alcohol out of their bodies slightly quicker than females. Two reasons for this are that the male liver is slightly larger than the females and that males have more water in their bodies.
• This means that males can dilute the alcohol in the blood stream more quickly, which can lead to alcohol having a quicker and stronger effect on females.
• Alcohol can have both short and long term effects on a person.