Myth 1: Coffee will help to sober you up.
Truth: Coffee does not help to sober you up.
Neither does a cold shower, fresh air.
The only way of getting rid of the effects of alcohol is for your body to metabolise it and that takes time!
On average your body metabolises one standard drink per hour.
Myth 2: Alcohol makes it easier for people to socialise.
Truth: Alcohol in small quantities can make people feel more relaxed and sociable.
However, alcohol is a "downer".
Drinking too much alcohol can make people want to withdraw from others.
Alternatively, drinking too much alcohol can make people feel aggressive, which also doesn't help much with improving social relationships!
Myth 3: Alcohol makes people feel happy.
Truth: In small quantities that can be true.
However, too much alcohol makes people feel depressed or sad!
Myth 4: The worst thing that can happen if you drink too much alcohol is a raging hangover.
Truth: Alcohol can lead to far greater evils than just a bad hangover.
Alcohol is one of the causal factors in many traumatic and tragic accidents.
Also, drinking too much alcohol can suppress the central nervous system to such an extent, that it can lead to coma or death.
Myth 5: Drugs are a bigger problem than alcohol.
Truth: All drugs cause harm but alcohol causes more deaths than all other illegal drugs combined.
Myth 6: Drinking makes you cool.
Truth: Drinking too much alcohol can lead to people feeling sick or vomiting.
It makes people less concerned about what they say or do.
Both of these factors can lead to socially embarrassing situations and certainly do not make people "cool".
Myth 7: You're tough and cool if you can handle lots of alcohol.
Truth: People with a larger lean body mass may be able to handle more alcohol than the average person.
Being bigger doesn't necessarily make a person cooler or tougher.
Another reason some people can handle more alcohol is because their bodies have become tolerant to the effects of alcohol.
This means that their liver may actually already be damaged or has learned to work harder to clear the alcohol.
