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The main acute effect is inebriation, which in turn spawns violence, spousal and child abuse, crime, motor vehicle accidents, workplace and home accidents, drowning, suicide, and accidental death. The chronic effects include alcoholism, liver disease, various forms of cancer, brain disorders, cardiovascular disease and other organ system effects, absence from or loss of work, family dysfunction, and malnutrition. 

Each year in America, the national consumption of alcohol by women of child-bearing age adds approximately 100,000 more mentally retarded children to the population. How many more children not diagnosed as mentally retarded are affected by prenatal exposure to alcohol We know only that this exposure is related to atypical brain development, neuropsychological deficits, academic difficulties, emotional dysfunction, and social dysfunction.39 Is this constellation of problems acceptable collateral damage of the alcoholic beverages industry ... 

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