Whats in alcohol that makes people drunk?

Question

I dont drink and I have been wondering because i have seen some crazy behavior

Answer 1

The alcohol does it. I don't know the biological mechanism, though.

Answer 2

* Increases the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which is related to pleasure, in an area of the brain that is associated with all types of addictions.
* Stimulates the activity of opioid peptides, which increases the pleasurable effects of alcohol.
* Activates serotonin receptors. This impacts serotonin’s many functions, including the regulation of mood, sleep, body temperature, and appetite and many others.
* Initiates neuroadaptation — changes caused by the brain attempting to function normally in the presence of alcohol.

Answer 3

It also suppressed the ADH (anti-diuretic horomone) which makes you pass much more water than you normally would. This is why people who are drinking pee a lot, and also why they feel like complete crap in the morning. Hangover is a state of dehydration and electrolyte shortages that come with it. (Thought I would point that out before the "whats a hangover" question came up.)

Answer 4

just think of alcohol as a poison. Any poison that your body intakes creates and adverse effect on your central nervous system. When you drink too much, the body automatically reacts to defend itself by causing you to vomit or even pass out.

Answer 5

Also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, ethanol, fermentation alcohol. a colorless, limpid, volatile, flammable, water-miscible liquid, C2H5OH, having an etherlike odor and pungent, burning taste, the intoxicating principle of fermented liquors, produced by yeast fermentation of certain carbohydrates, as grains, molasses, starch, or sugar, or obtained synthetically by hydration of ethylene or as a by-product of certain hydrocarbon syntheses: used chiefly as a solvent in the extraction of specific substances, in beverages, medicines, organic synthesis, lotions, tonics, colognes, rubbing compounds, as an automobile radiator antifreeze, and as a rocket fuel.

Answer 6

The alchohol in alchohol makes people drunk.

Answer 7

it's not what's in the alcohol it is what it does to your brain. It pretty much dries your brain or deprives it of oxygen. pretty much how your skin gets dry when you put alcohol on it. basically you are temporarily making your brain not work... on purpose. DON'T START you're not missin anything.

Answer 8

alcohol

Answer 9

drinking is very bad....

i hate drinking and people who drink

its soooo ungodly