American Experience. Freedom Summer | Article. Fannie Lou Hamer. Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. She first joined her family in the cotton fields at the age of six.
Binge drinking and continued alcohol use in large amounts are associated with many health problems, including: 1  Unintentional injuries such as car crash, falls, burns, drowning. 2  Intentional injuries such as firearm injuries, sexual assault, domestic violence.  Increased on-the-job injuries and loss of productivity.
In excessive quantities, however, alcohol can lead to alcohol poisoning, drunkenness (also known as intoxication), alcoholism, coma, and death. These are some of the alcohol effects on the body that characterize the worst drinking problems and the most destructive consequences of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Typically, but not always, the short term effects of alcohol are less critical and less damaging than the long term effects of alcohol.