Alcohol, the time-honored fermented milk, is the norm for many adults. In all kinds of social situations, drinking alcohol has become almost a medium of communication and connection. It has various romantic nicknames in literature: mellow, fairy liquid, fragrant spring, turbid mash, ......It has always been praised and sought after by people.
However, alcohol also has an unknown face – it is not only a social media, but it is also often used as an excuse for "rational retreat", and is synonymous with a "backstabber".
Indeed, at the wine table at night, many people will use the power of alcohol to "embolden" to do things that they usually dare not do, and under the infiltration of alcohol, "boldness" has become a norm.
However, behind all this, is it really the "superpower" given by alcohol? Perhaps we should start with the biological metabolism of alcohol in the human body**.
Wine, no matter how attractive its aroma, is chemically alcoholic, i.e. ethanol. Different wines have different levels of ethanol, and most of them are absorbed through the digestive tract after entering the human body and sent to the liver for metabolism. The liver breaks it down, and the rest may be excreted in urine, breath or sweat.
If this process is abnormal and the ethanol-degrading enzymes in the liver are not very efficient, it can affect the neurotransmitters in the brain and eventually act on our central nervous system.
After drinking, the human body will go through the stages of hazy, excited, anesthesia and even deep anesthesia, and these pharmacological effects cause feelings ranging from relaxation and pleasure to uncontrollable coma, which are caused by the effect of alcohol.
At first, the slight feeling of excitement brought by alcohol may indeed reduce the psychological burden and temporarily liberate the self bound by social rules. People use this to release their hidden emotions and have the courage to release their true selves. However, this release has not come without a price.
Scientific studies have shown that alcohol can paralyze the brain and make people less judgmental to the outside world, commonly known as "alcoholic myopia". In such a state, people are highly susceptible to significant stimuli in their environment and ignore other important signals.
As a result, some people become more aggressive and reckless when drunk, creating the illusion that "alcohol is intimidating". And those who indulge in alcohol are often in pursuit of that temporary indulgence and freedom.
However, alcohol also increases the risk of losing rational control when intoxicated. Morality and responsibility take a back seat, and instinctive impulses take over, which is known as the phenomenon of "drunken disorder".
Behind this phenomenon, psychology has proposed the "alcohol myopia theory" and the "alcohol expectation theory" to explain it. The former focuses on the decline of people's cognitive abilities after intoxication, while the latter focuses on the psychological effects of people's expectations of the effects of drinking.
However, when alcohol is overdosed and coma and drunkenness comes, people lose their rationality, and then there is no way to talk about "disordered sex". And those who use alcohol to fish in troubled waters and use drunkenness as an excuse to shirk responsibility afterwards are undoubtedly unforgivable behaviors.
On the other hand, alcohol is not to blame for the loss of the bottom line – the real problem may be the individual's own morality and sense of responsibility.
Finally, for female friends, alcohol is more likely to put them at risk. That's why it's important to deal with alcohol safely.
Back to the beginning of the article, although alcohol is regarded as the social medium of the world, drinking it in moderation can easily atmosphere, but excessive it may lead to gaffes and damage the social effect.
As for those who take advantage of alcohol, remember that, in any case, sanity and responsibility should not be lost in drunkenness.