Living with your injury
Alcohol & Drugs
This resource is about the effects of using alcohol and drugs after brain injury.
After brain injury, your brain is more vulnerable to the effects of alcohol and drugs, therefore you are advised to abstain.
- Alcohol and drugs will affect you faster and have more of an impact on you after a brain injury.
- The use of alcohol and recreational drugs will interfere with recovery.
- Using alcohol or taking non-prescription drugs can increase the risk of having an epileptic seizure.
- Any difficulties you may have as a result of your brain injury, may be made worse or become more obvious to other people when you drink alcohol or take drugs