Why does alcohol make people act more stimulated when they begin to drink?

Answer 1

Alcohol can affect you in three ways and the effects will differ with each person, depending upon gender, size, previous experience with alcohol, feeling at the time, and how much and how quickly you drink.Alcohol affects how you feel.
With 1-2 drinks you begin to get a warm, relaxed feeling. You may feel stimulated because alcohol reduces inhibitions. With three drinks (in one hour) motor coordination is affected. Although you may feel you can drive a car, it is very risky. Speech is also impaired and you can become noisy and possibly aggressive.
The more alcohol you drink, the greater the effect on your behavior. Since each person is different, you can use an alcohol chart, which is based on your body size, to calculate your blood alcohol concentration

Answer 2

http://www.dui.com/alcohol_drugs/alcohol_biological_impact.htm:

" There is no question that the person who drinks alcohol seems stimulated. Speech becomes free and animated, social inhibitions may be forgotten, and the drinker can begin to act and feel more emotional. But these effects are misleading; the "stimulation" occurs only because alcohol affects those portions of the brain that control judgment. "Being stimulated" by alcohol actually amounts to a depression of self-control. A principal effect of alcohol is to slow down brain activity, and depending on what, how much, and how fast a person drinks, the result is slurred speech, hazy thinking, slowed reaction time, dulled hearing, impaired vision, weakened muscles and fogged memory. Certainly not a stimulating experience"
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I suppose what this site is saying is that because our society teaches us to refrain from yelling out loud for no reason, or dancing wildly at any given moment.....alcohol acts as something that helps us relax and forget our worries about what others think of us, and causes some people to be crazy when without alcohol they may be very shy or polite. this is why there is a misconception of alcohol being a "stimulant" when it actually is a "depressant".

Answer 3

Alcohols first depressant act is on inhibitions so
Persons who are normally inhibited about jumping on a table & ripping their clothes off, have that inhibition gone and they start doing it (or other stuff)
Subsequent depressant activity eventually leads to fatigue but the acting without inhibitions seems like stimulation to others.

Answer 4

As everyone knows, alcohol is a depressant. When people start drinking they first lose their inhibitions, then they start acting stupid, then they lose consciousness if they don't stop drinking.

Answer 5

Reason being, is because it is Liquid Courage!!! I speak from experience!! I have been slapped many a times from that liquid courage getting the best of me!!

Answer 6

It just maks them not afraid to joke around or express themselves which can be a bad thing for some.

Answer 7

because alcohol causes you to lose your senses.