I had my first drink when I was 14 years old at a family thanksgiving gathering. The homemade cherry heering was enough to give my quite the euphoric feeling and a strong alcohol buzz. I enjoyed the feeling soo much, in fact, that even at such a young age it became a fairly large part of my life.
Alcohol
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Well-documented
Multiple authoritative sources agree on dosing and effects.
- 4 corroborating sources
- 1 ROA with full dose ladder
- duration data present
- 26 combo interactions documented
- PubChem toxicity data
Well-documented
Multiple authoritative sources agree on dosing and effects.
- 4 corroborating sources
- 1 ROA with full dose ladder
- duration data present
- 26 combo interactions documented
- PubChem toxicity data
Aliases: Beer, Wine, Etoh, Booze, Hooch, ethanol
Summary
Ethanol (also known as ethyl alcohol, ethyl hydroxide, drinking alcohol or simply alcohol) is a depressant substance of the alcohol class. It is the primary psychoactive component of alcoholic drinks, liquors and spirits; making it the second-most widely used recreational substance globally (after caffeine). The alcoholic beverage known as beer is the most widely consumed beverage in the world after water and tea.
Dose Information
| ROA | Light | Common | Strong | Heavy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral | 10-20g | 20-30g | 30-40g | 40g+ |
Light
Common
Strong
Heavy
Onset, Duration & After-effects
| ROA | Onset | Comeup | Peak | Offset | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral | 0-6 min | 12-48 min | 30-90 min | 0.8-2 hrs | 1.5-3 hrs |
Tolerance
Build-up
develops gradually over weeks to months of regular drinking
Reset
weeks to months depending on duration of use; full metabolic reset may take longer
Tolerance Decay
Full tolerance
3d
Half tolerance
37d
Baseline
~60d
Acute tolerance: develops within a single session — the reset numbers above apply after sustained heavy use, not after one binge. Within-session tachyphylaxis usually resets largely overnight.
Effects
Aggregated from 1,136 Erowid and 38 Bluelight experience reports
Positive Effects 46
Anxiety Suppression
41.1%
84%
Euphoria
32.1%
88%
Stimulation
29.3%
81%
Music Enhancement
27.0%
85%
Sedation
24.3%
80%
Empathy
22.8%
75%
Sociability Enhancement
21.1%
86%
Color Enhancement
20.2%
65%
Tactile Enhancement
19.5%
70%
Focus Enhancement
16.5%
79%
Awe
10.5%
82%
Contentment
10.5%
76%
Body High
10.3%
85%
Introspection
9.4%
82%
Morphing
7.9%
87%
Entity Imagery
7.9%
83%
Libido Enhancement
7.9%
82%
Geometric Imagery
5.3%
85%
Oneness
5.3%
88%
Cosmic Significance
5.3%
82%
Adverse Effects 65
Vomiting
28.9%
90%
Visual Distortions
28.7%
79%
Confusion
27.8%
84%
Nausea
27.7%
87%
Body Load
26.3%
80%
Thought Disorganization
23.7%
77%
Amnesia
21.1%
88%
Memory Suppression
19.3%
78%
Depersonalization
18.4%
81%
Auditory Effects
16.5%
90%
Dizziness
15.8%
82%
Fear
13.2%
91%
Tremor
13.2%
84%
Dissociation
11.6%
88%
Motor Impairment
11.3%
81%
Thought Loops
10.5%
80%
Paranoia
10.5%
82%
Disinhibition
10.5%
81%
Headache
8.5%
80%
Dysphoria
7.9%
87%
Combinations
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Anecdotal first-person accounts from Reddit, Erowid, and Bluelight. Click a source to expand. Reports are harm-reduction context, not medical guidance.
Erowid 8 reports 2 positive 4 neutral 2 cautionary visit
Now I drink a bit , not alot but once in a while I'll part. The exprience I had with some rum and coke was rather well. It all started at my friends girlfriends house. She fed me about 7 shot's and I got a buzz , then I decided to add some Coke Cola to the mix.
The First Day "Do you know what it is like", she asked, crying and quaking, "to be second to booze?" He had no answer, for the truth of the matter was that even he was second to booze. He had always loved the drink more than himself, more than her.
I'm 17 years old, male, in the 12th grade, and do pretty good at school (I get C's, B's, and A's). I'm not in any social groups, but I do hang out with a wide variety of friends: anyone from addicted drug dealers who live in the slums, to drug free, rich, popular Christian school wrestlers, to acid head neo-hippies.
The heavy is drinker is an unusual thing. The ability to consume large amounts of alcohol with minimal side effects for one thing, and the general apathy for all things non-alcohol related, such as sobriety or responsibility, and especially finance.
The day started out like many other summer days -- a couple of friends and I decided to get drunk. (M, B, & myself. We also had a sober friend, J) The best way to do that, in our opinion, was to split a 750ml bottle of 151 proof rum.
Last night, new years eve 2004, was the second time in only a period of a few months that I almost died several different ways in a drunken stupor. This only happens when I hang out with my friend 'S', quite possibly the worst drinking buddy ever; but what he did for me last night is just amazing.
Since I haven't yet had any drug experiences other than alcohol yet in my life, I couldn't possibly think of any greater way of helping but to give a description of my first time usage and aftereffects. Background: I'm 19 years old now, unemployed and looking for a job.
Bluelight 6 threads 4 neutral 2 cautionary visit
This took place some time in the past... It had been many years since I had last had wormwood, or more accurately, what was given to me as "absinthe jello shots" at a festival. I remember the jello shots kicked in quickly and left me feeling spacey with a touch of "zoom vision".
So over Christmas break freshman year, we had some relatives over, and like every Christmas break my parents were drinking every night (not like alcoholics or whatever, just normal partying type stuff).
So last night we went out and were drinking as usual for a Thursday night. The plan is usually a house party and then the bars. I got fairly drunk first and then later we headed over to our friends house to smoke some mairjuana. This particular marijuana usually itensifies our drunk state in an amazing way.
Hi there have been a member for a long while but have not done many posts. My previous experience are with cannabis, extascy, mephedrone, pscilocyban mushrooms, san pedro cactus, kratom, codein water, amanita muscaria, LSA, MPA, ethylphenidate, dimethocaine, speed, JWH-018, Am-2201 and now AKB-48F.
Okay so I'll start off with a little background information. I'm 18 years old, have a general anxiety disorder and depression and have been drinking pretty excessively for the last 2-3 years. I usually drink around 10 drinks either on friday or saturday night, sometimes both.
A while back me and some old friends didn't have a lot of money. Me and another one of my friends where staying the night at a friends house. We didn't have money but still wanted to get fucked up some how.
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