When somebody is drunk, why do they crave more and more alcohol rather than just enjoying the buzz once they reach it
In: Biology
When you get drunk; you lose your ability to tell the difference between good, and bad decisions. When you’re drunk everything seems like a good decision… so when you get that “buzz” you don’t think “I should stop and enjoy this”…. instead you think “having a shot of tequila right now seems like a good decision. “
This is also why people drink and drive. They just don’t see the difference between good and bad decisions… in fact, almost every poor decision a person has made their life is almost certainly the result of one too many drinks.
> The answer lies buried in the brain’s nicely-toasted reward pathways. Although alcohol acts as a suppressant in parts of the brain that control physical operations (standing up, having sex, finding keys, or all three at once), it also stimulates the production of dopamine. This devious organic chemical is indeed both dope and mean, as it activates areas of the brain associated with desire and reward. This ‘reward system’ is a set of interconnected structures in the brain that are responsible for our sensations of wanting nice things we don’t have; liking nice things when we get them; and learning that getting them again would be a good thing (a repetitive process known as “positive reinforcement”).
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