The Affects Alcohol has on the Brain As many of us may know, alcohol is a very dangerous substance that is highly abused by many people. Many people, such as parents and other grown-ups, affiliate alcohol with young teenagers. The fact of the matter is that more than seventy percent of high school age students don’t drink. It is only a rare percentage of students that do in fact drink, and those are the people who make a bad reputation for teenagers. It always seems that the ignorant and uniformed people who believe they know everything always speak the wrong news instead of finding the factual information. Now, after explaining the misperception of people’s words and gossip, here are the facts about alcohol and its many serious side affects and also consequences.Alcohol is a mind altering depressant not a stimulant. When I speak of depressants, I mean that they are “downers” so to say in slang. “Downers” or depressants are the depressive drugs in the alcohol, that tend to make you mellow and at ease. Stimulants however are the complete opposite; they are drugs that keep you awake. They trick the brain into thinking that you are wide-awake, similar to the affects of caffeine. Alcohol is passed through many organs in the human body. After entering through the mouth, alcohol then travels to the stomach, where if there is no food, alcohol absorbed will then immediately enter the bloodstream. After entering the blood stream it then travels to the liver for detoxification, or to break down. If there is no food to help break it down, the alcohol takes a direct flight to the brain. A healthy, sober persons blood can travel through the entire body in 90 seconds, and when alcohol is added it can take as long as 110 seconds. When there is no food in your stomach, and alcohol starts to constantly flow through the stomach you can get drunk much faster opposed to if you had food, mainly because th...
