With the festive season on its verge, alcohol intake is certainly marking a rise. However, the holidays shouldn't be an excuse for excessive drinking.

However, Christmas and New Year are the times when people drink and indulge in excessive alcohol drinking.

Tagged as a threat to public health, excessive drinking can harm vital organs such as your liver and can serve as an unwanted reason of an accident.

It is claimed that about 32 people in the United States die in alcohol-related car accidents on daily basis. In addition, the risk related to an accident death due to a drunk driver is significantly more in the Hispanic community, which is recorded to have highest mortality rates.

Hence, it is advisable to set personal limits on your alcohol drinking. One should drink within limits when you go out on gatherings, parties, or throughout the holiday season. Besides, keeping fixed days of the week for drinking is always good.

Besides, one should drink slowly so as to eschew the likeliness to getting drunk, especially as this can lead to drinking in abundance.

Last but not the least, if you have to drive, certainly watch your drinks. Do not drink and drive and do not permit any of your friends drive in a drunken state.