How Alchohol Affects Your Body

Alcohol is a clear, colorless liquid that is found in beer, wine and spirits. What you drink is ethyl alcohol or ethanol (C 2 H 5 OH). Although traditionally considered a depressant, alcohol is present in a wide range of contradictory effects. It depresses or stimulates, excites and calms. Previously, alcohol was used medicinally to relieve pain, reduce fever or relieve stomach cramps. 
Alcohol, consumed in moderation, is without significant adverse effects for most consumers. However, the abuse of alcohol can have harmful effects on the mind and body, so much so that it is one of the most dangerous drugs that are for both the consumer and for those around him. About 10 or 12% of the proportion of drinkers are chronic alcoholics or have a serious drinking problem.

Alcohol you drink goes into the stomach, but need not be digested. It goes directly from the stomach into the intestine, then into the general circulation. From there it is distributed in all parts of the body. It is the liver that allows us to eliminate the alcohol, turning it into water and carbon dioxide (CO 2). The liver takes about one hour to remove the contents of a drink. A person gets drunk when they drink more alcohol than the liver can not eliminate in the same period.