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Revista de la Facultad de Medicina

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Abstract

TELLEZ MOSQUERA, Jairo  and  COTE MENENDEZ, Miguel. Ethyl alcohol: high risk toxin for human healt socially accepted. rev.fac.med. [online]. 2006, vol.54, n.1, pp.32-47. ISSN 0120-0011.

Alcohol is the most widely used drugs in World wide so it is in Colombiatoo. The United Nations Organization (UN) report on substance abuse 2004, esteem that 2.6000 millions of persons used alcohol occasional, habitual, abuse or addictive way. In Colombia, RUMBOS, the presidential office for drugs addictions esteem that 89.7 % of the students in universities were habitual consumer of alcohol. Alcohol is the first psicoactivas substances use for people than after use illegal substances. When ethyl alcohol is used in permanent and frequent way produced acute and chronic adverses effect on the health. The long run alcohol abusers has adverse effect in the nutricions, neurological, hepatic and teratogenic. The neurological, gastrointestinal, endocrine and acid-base equilibrium area affected in acute ways principally. The social aspects in quite important too alcohol has been related to interfamiliar violence, traffic accidents and violence in general. The high incidence in use and consumption, its toxic effect over human health, its negative social effect and the fact that it´s a legal and social accept substance made alcohol and real public health problem. Its necessary to say "be careful with alcohol in general".

Keywords : ethanol; alcoholic beverages; street drugs; toxicology; alcoholic intoxication; public health.

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