No. Not included. Alcohol suppresses the nervous system and slows down. It is a sedative. If alcohol were a stimulant, then it would be given to drivers before the flight. Like coffee. But they don't. For some reason.
Alcohol disrupts the brain, and the drunk person freaks out. But this is not a stimulating effect, namely eccentricity.
Alcoholics have a completely different story. Alcohol also acts as a brake on them. This is realized through receptors for gamma-aminobutyric acid.
Gamma-aminobutyric acid is the main inhibitory substance in our brain. Alcohol can tickle the same receptors that gamma-aminobutyric acid sits on. Due to this, alcohol slows down the brain.
In alcoholics, booze has tickled these receptors for so long that they seem to burn out. And they hardly work. Gamma-aminobutyric acid has almost no effect on them. Besides alcohol, there is no one to tickle them. Therefore, an alcoholic can drink a lot and still appear relatively normal. An ordinary person in his place would have already fallen into a coma. That is, the alcoholic's alcohol slightly slows down, but there are no other brakes left in the brain.
And now imagine that this almost peppy alcoholic stops drinking.
Daily doses of alcohol suppressed and soothed the alcoholic's brain. We can say that alcohol has become his native inhibitory substance. Then the alcoholic stops drinking, and after a couple of days his brain has nothing to hold back. A squirrel comes, and the drunk starts to freak out. There will already be excitement. That is, this weirdo was not stimulated by alcohol, but restrained. He is not a stimulant.
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In alcoholics, alcohol replaces the internal inhibitory mechanism. Because alcohol slows down. If an alcoholic refuses alcohol, then there will be nothing to slow him down, and a squirrel will come. Got it?
Now tell me why you can't mix alcohol with stimulants like coffee?
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