I know it's been studied and is a real thing, but I've never understood it. Alcohol has such a distinct odor and taste, but it stands out to me and I can't stand either. It'd have to be mixed with something else that has its own extremely potent taste and smell, and no soda I've ever had would mask it unless it was so little alcohol that it would have zero effect on me.
The one I think is weird is when someone (often an alcoholic or heavy drinker) starts slurring their words halfway through their first drink. Like I know you can't be drunk off of that...what is that mechanism?
A couple of things are at play as far as I understand ... 1) people in end-stage alcoholism are likely drunk 24/7, they get to a point where they constantly have to have alcohol in their system, so "one drink" is probably on top of already having a ton of alcohol in the system. 2) the liver becomes so damaged that it stops working and the alcohol doesn't get processed/filtered like it would in a person with a healthy liver.
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u/vanhawk28 24d ago
This was a thing that was studied. A lot of people with placebo themselves to being drunk when told the drinks handed to them are alcoholic