How Alcohol Works in Your Brain

Dont blame me if you want a drink after this…

Rajeet S
Amalgamate
Published in
6 min readJun 11, 2020

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Images by Charles “Duck” Unitas and Robina Weermeijer on Unsplash

I’ve studied how many types of drugs work in the brain; MDMA, magic mushrooms, LSD, nicotine, cocaine, to mention a few.

Alcohol is, by far, the most complex of them all in how it reacts with your neural circuitry. This, given that alcohol is also one of the most simply structured drugs in existence.

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Rajeet S
Amalgamate

Rajeet enjoys mixing cocktails and bombarding strangers with philosophy.