Most people can keep their alcohol consumption down to safe limits, their need to have alcohol on a daily or weekly basis is minimal and as a result, any risk of liver damage is very low. But for those people who drink more than the recommended weekly limit, they are at much greater risk of really damaging their health.
For men, recommended limits are a maximum of three or four units a day and for women, a maximum of three units a day. Binge drinking however these days, seems to have become the norm and almost expected especially within the teenage age-range and this can have serious side-effects both at the time as well as later on in life. You don’t need to drink much to start to form an alcohol addiction and whilst some people escape forming an addiction, they do star to form an unhealthy association to alcohol and abuse [...]