I can drink whiskey all night and have a lovely time in good spirits and no hangover the next day.
But I’ve seen otherwise nice people turn into demons on whiskey and people have told me it gives them severe hangovers.
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It’s not that certain alcohol affects people differently, it’s that alcohol affects people differently.
Alcohol is alcohol, the difference in effect stems from how much is consumed and how quickly it’s consumed—and also if there are any mitigating factors such as greater body mass, whether you’ve eaten etc, and how quickly it’s metabolised. This all determines your blood alcohol level.
Social factors or the setting may impact the quantity of alcohol that is consumed, and how quickly, and your mood may also play a part in playing with those variables.
In the same way, social factors and the setting will determine what you drink, and what you drink may affect how you drink it. This makes it easy to mix up the causal reason as being the “type of drink” to explain why people act differently when they drink different things.
You may have heard people swear that “tequila makes me angry”. Its simply not true. It’s nothing to do with the tequila, it’s that you’ve done 10 shots of it with your friends who’ve also all done 10 shots of it in 2 hours
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