Truth: Alcohol may increase a person’s interest in sex, but it decreases their ability to perform.
Alcohol may also decrease a person's inhibitions resulting in unplanned situations and situations which they wouldn't normally have consented to.
These situations have the potential to result in pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, sexual assault, etc.
Myth 9: Everyone does it.
Truth: This is not true.
While most 13 -14 year olds might have tried a sip of alcohol across their whole lives, very few drink to excess.
Only 1 in 50 report drinking above a level that increases the risk of alcohol related injury on a single occasion.
Myth 10: Alcohol is not a drug.
Truth: Alcohol is often not thought of as a drug because it is legal.
Alcohol is a drug which slows down the central nervous system and is second only to tobacco as a cause of drug related deaths and hospitalisations in Australia.
Alcohol belongs to a class of drugs called depressants.
Myth 11: Mixing drinks makes you more intoxicated.
Truth: It is the total amount of alcohol in all the different drinks combined, which will determine the level of intoxication, not the actual switching between different kinds of drinks.
Alcohol is alcohol.
However, people who mix drinks may be drinking more alcohol because they are trying different kinds, resulting in a higher concentration of alcohol.
Myth 12: Switching between drinks causes a hangover.
Truth: It is the amount of alcohol consumed and the concentration of congeners, toxic by products from the production of alcohol, which will determine if a person suffers from a hangover, not the switching between types.
Two interesting facts about alcohol:
Fact 1: Carbonated alcoholic drinks affect you more rapidly as carbonation causes the valve between the stomach and small intestine to open.
This allows the alcohol to enter the blood stream from the small intestine more quickly.
Fact 2: Alcohol contains calories, but little else of nutritional value.
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