Why does alcohol make us drunk? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Pete Brown
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Ah, alcohol. As Homer once said, this infamous molecule is both “the cause of, and the solution to, all of life’s problems”.
OK, it was Homer Simpson who said that rather than the classical bard, but it’s no less true or profound for that. Sometimes, the rubbish you come out with when you’re drunk really is quite clever, or funny, or both, so long as you can remember it properly the next morning.
Our ambiguous relationship with alcohol is older than civilisation – in fact there’s a strong argument that it was the . We’ve been drinking it since our dawn as a species, and it probably helped us . It may even have played a role. No, I’m not drunk. This is proper science.
