National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s Post

The coordination needed for driving is compromised long before a person shows signs of intoxication and long after they stop drinking. Learn more: https://brnw.ch/21wPtBb

  • Person in green sweater holding coffee mug. Text overlay says, Coffee does not help a person sober up enough to drive. Alcohol continues to affect the brain and body long after you stop drinking.
Leigh Fulghum

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Unfortunately, alcoholics do not believe this, nor do many adolescents. We also know many people with holiday depression drink more than usual from Thanksgiving to The Super Bowl. I think it would be scarier to show brain images of alcoholics compared to teetotalers, to show the affect of skin aging on a woman who drinks 2 drinks a day for life vs. the skin of a woman teetotaler. For the men, liver and kidney images would be good. You cannot reason with an alcoholic.

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