This Is Why We Get Addicted To alcoholic beverages

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Since its discovery, alcoholic beverages has been blessed, cursed, loved, hated, banned and celebrated. What makes the alcoholic beverages so sinfully desirable? What causes people to consume this poison and yet consider it as the ultimate cure?

Researchers at the University of Sussex have provided the perfect excuse for downing a drink or two alcoholic beverages helps in remembering the good things and forget the bad and therefore is addictive. According to the research team, alcoholic beverages is addictive because it erases the worst memories of being drunk. The study has found that alcoholic beverages affects memory in a selective manner making it easier to remember the good things about a party but harder to recall the bad things that happen after having too much. Professor Duka, who was speaking at the British Association for the Advancement of Science Festival, explained that the effect of alcoholic beverages on memory is one of the least-understood aspects of alcoholic beverages abuse, yet it could be one of the most important in terms of explaining why the drug is so powerfully addictive. "The effects of alcoholic beverages on mood are known contributors to its use and abuse. It is less known how its effects on memory and inhibitory control add to alcoholic beverages being an addictive drug,' the Independent quoted Professor Theodora Duka of Sussex University, as saying. 'Material acquired in an intoxicated state is less effectively retrieved in a sober state. Thus people who abuse alcoholic beverages forget the consequences of intoxication during periods of abstinence,' Professor Duka said.

"The effect of alcoholic beverages to weaken control processes intuitively appears to be the most important contributor to the development of alcoholic beverages addiction, since alcoholic beverages addiction is perceived to be an inability to control drinking. alcoholic beverages facilitates memories for emotional events experienced before intoxication-mostly positive and impairs memories for emotional events experienced after intoxication-often negative biasing memory to positive effects of alcoholic beverages, and support for further drinking,' she added.

Studies into the memories of people engaged in heavy drinking have shown that it is the inability to remember the worst excesses of a night out while remembering the happy things that led up to them, is one of the main causes of repeated binge drinking. Memory tests on volunteers who were shown emotion-laden images before, during and after a bout of drinking found there was a clear degradation in memory as the alcoholic beverages began to build up in their bodies. 'alcoholic beverages facilitated memory for material seen after its administration. More importantly, under the influence of alcoholic beverages, emotional images seen before alcoholic beverages consumption were recalled more whereas emotional images seen after alcoholic beverages consumption were recalled less,' she said.

With the increase in alcoholic beverages consumption and abuse, its awareness and impact should be well-defined. The above report highlights the 'corrosion' effect of alcoholic beverages creeping in to your system and engulfing you, while you were unaware. alcoholic beverages is a depressant.