Alcohol is a depressant. It reduces your awareness. It even reduces your awareness of how drunk you are. It gives you pleasure and then you feel the need to dri

Alcohol is a depressant. It reduces your awareness. It even reduces your awareness of how drunk you are. It gives you pleasure and then you feel the need to drink more to stay in that pleasurable state. The idea that your actions might have consequences doesn't much enter your mind because alcohol depresses your thinking. You think less and you observe less when you are drunk. That is dangerous.