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The Health Damages of Alcoholic Drinking

The first step to bad alcohol damage is alcoholic hepatitis, which is inflammation of the liver. You have about a 70% chance if you have alcoholic hepatitis to develop full-blown cirrhosis. And that is when, little bit by little bit, your liver just turns into scar tissue and becomes an unusable organ.

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