Why Do People Drink?

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While doing my research about alcoholism, I got to read many articles and many websites and I found that alcohol is nothing more or less than poison. In the article by Richard Allsup, he explains what alcohol is. He also mentions that alcohol has multiple uses for example biofuel (bioethanol). And that is what alcohol is. it is the same as bioethanol diluted with water and mixed with other ingredients, or ‘congeners’ which give the drink its smell and taste. In other words when you go out to the bar and ask for a drink you may as well be asking for a glass of fuel.

This is why alcohol is not good for our human bodies. It is responsible for 25 percent of all hospital admissions these days!

This raises a new question: why do people drink?

I started drinking heavily at age 21. I had a good job and a good financial situation and nothing to do with my spare time.

I would say that my major motivation to start drinking was social. (Which according to the survey done in Netherlands that is the reason why 71 percent of people drink)

But that is not the case for everybody.



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In the article “Psychological dependence on alcohol: a process model” Allsup explains the depressant effects of alcohol, and how alcohol can be attractive to people in two levels.  The first one would be as a tranquilizer. Alcohol tranquilizes stress.

It is not uncommon for somebody to go out for a drink and have a drink or two after a long and stressful day at work or for a house mom to finish off the day with a martini before bed.

The other reason would be social. Alcohol makes us do things that we would not do without the influence of alcohol, like: dancing, talking to people, let our hair down and get crazy and have fun, I am sure we all have personally seen the most antisocial and shy person have a couple of drinks and turn in the life of the party. And this is what makes people think of alcohol as a stimulant and not a depressant. But once the party winds down; the alcohol will come back and get us as a depressant.  (By the way it is attributed to physical deceases and is detrimental organs and at the same time.)