
Unregistered 179: Edward Slingerland
Unregistered with Thaddeus Russell
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Is Alcohol a Depressant?
Alcohol is a stimulant and sant at the same time. The stimulating effects are the dominant ones in intoxication. As blood alcohol contact gets higher than the depressive facts start to go to other parts of the brain, like the motor regions. Alcohol just comes in and just, it's like a kid running into a control center and just hitting a bunch of buttons all at once. That's why uo alcohol can help you fall asleep, but then you wake up in the middle of the night because it's, it has tis depressing effect.
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