What I mean by that is I’ve heard countless stories of people who say that when they are drunk, and something happens to, let’s say, a friend, and they can’t take care of themselves, they can “sober up” and handle the situation, even though they’re also just as drunk most of the time. Obviously, that’s not how alcohol works in the body, so what is really happening when someone can go from being in a drunken state to a sober, alert state almost like a flipping a switch?
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Alcohol in a inhibition suppressant and has a mild effect on the parasympathetic nervous system.
If you get a hit of adrenaline that can temporarily counteract some of the effects of the alcohol in your system, so that can have a sobering effect on people as well.
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