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Q: What is the need to drink larger amounts of alcohol to get the same feeling called?
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Does Alcohol cause euphoria?

In the immediate effects, yes - alcohol does induce euphoria, then in larger doses it will cause lethargy (sluggish feeling), and so on.


Does alcohol increase euphoria?

In the immediate effects, yes - alcohol does induce euphoria, then in larger doses it will cause lethargy (sluggish feeling), and so on.


What is it called when the drug user needs larger amounts of it?

It's called tolerance, or habituation.


What alcohol is good for you?

Small amounts of alcohol (no more than 1 standard drink* a day for women, 2 for men) are not harmful, and may confer some health benefits, especially wine. Larger amounts are undesirable, and there is no difference among sources. Alcohol is alcohol.*Roughly: one 8-oz. beer, one 6-oz. glass of wine, one shot of 100-proof liquor.


Does stress affect blood alcohol content?

Blood alcohol level is the percentage of alcohol in the blood, so technically, no, the B/A level is not affected by volume. Practically, however, Dinking the same amounts, a larger person will have a lower B/A level than a smaller person, due to the difference in amounts of blood in the body.


Why alcohol makes one fatty?

It's not the alcohol itself which makes a person "fatty", it's the fact that when you eat and then consume larger amounts of alcohol, your liver prioritizes to break that down the alcohol rather then the food you have just eaten seeing it as alcohol is toxic. Your body will then store the carbohydrates not broken down by the liver as fat.


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It should be safe if you take no more than 1 mg and have 1 or 2 drinks at most. However, you will feel a buzz from this and should not drive or operate machinery. Even if you are legally just barely under the alcohol limit, you will be impaired like you had a few extra drinks. If you take larger amounts of Ativan, and/or larger amounts of alcohol you can make yourself sick possibly even inducing respiratory arrest resulting in an emergency room visit. However, if you are more sensitive than the average person perhaps no amount should be mixed.


The body's need for larger and larger amounts of a drug to produce the same effect?

tolerance


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Does drinking alcohol reduce heart disease?

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