Question

When a person consumes alcohol it is absorbed directly from the stomach into the bloodstream. Give three immediate effects.

Answer 1

• Cell membranes are highly permeable to alcohol, so once alcohol is in the bloodstream, it can diffuse into nearly every cell in the body.
• The immediate effects of alcohol consumption include a decrease in anxiety and motor skills and euphoria at lower doses to intoxication (drunkenness), stupor, unconsciousness, anterograde amnesia (memory "blackouts"), and central nervous system depression at higher doses