Report Abuse. Japan is very conservative. Japan is also intolerant of others and xenophobic. They tend to be more monolithic than the US-there is very little diversity among the population.
The only way that alcohol can affect any of these antibiotics is to alter the rate in which the liver breaks them down or increase the rate in which they are excreted. However, because this is only true of certain antibiotics it is not true that alcohol, as a rule, decreases the effectiveness of antibiotics.
The Long-Term Effects of Alcohol on the Body. Long-term addiction can take a heavy toll on the entire body. Alcohol can impact the heart and cause cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias (Irregular heart beat), stroke and high blood pressure. The liver takes the brunt with repercussions including fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, fibrosis and cirrhosis.