This popped into my head because I’m a recovering addict/alcoholic and my friend was asking about what it looked like. I told them that in terms of sheer amount, 18 shots over the course of two hours would barely give me a buzz, hence drinking a handle of gin per day.
If I took that many shots in that short a time span now, I would certainly die without medical intervention. Why is this? Do we produce more enzymes or something? And if so, isn’t the chemical cause of alcoholism damaged enzymes anyway?
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Addicts will build a tolerance to a substance over time. If they quit for a while, they lose that tolerance. If the addict falls off the bandwagon, they often will immediately take the substance at the same rate they were when they had a long built up tolerance, not knowing that they don’t need as much to get high as they used to before they quit. This will then cause people to overdose, or drink too much.
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