alcohol and the brain

As alcohol is introduced into the body it starts its effects. The alcohol is mixed in with our blood, hereby, flowing to every part of our body. The blood contaminated with alcohol will reach your brain in about 7 seconds. This does not mean that you feel the effects of it right away. As a matter of fact you can not find any measurable effects of the alcohol for approximately 30 minutes (Dodge 256). The direct effectiveness of …

…as follows: "All doses of alcohol depress the intellectual processes of apprehension, memory, and judgment. Small doses facilitate motor discharge at first and subsequently depress it. Large doses depress both intellectual and motor processes from the first. The nature and amount of the effects depend on the characteristics of the individual and on his condition.(Dodge 242)" Even the littlest consumption effects the human body. The more you drink the more you become incapacitated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**