The short answer is “it can.” Alcohol reaches your brain within 5 minutes of taking a first drink and within 10 minutes already is interfering with neuron pathways that the brain uses to communicate information. This can impair judgment, which could lead to spontaneous unwise decisions that you could be paying for—for the rest of our life. 30 deaths a day occur just from vehicle crashes involving alcohol-impaired drivers. Alcohol is a toxin to the brain, which releases dopamine, the feel better chemical, to compensate, but the relaxed, confident feeling dopamine provides does not last long. By 20 minutes into drinking, the liver begins to metabolize alcohol at the rate of 1 ounce per hour. When you take in alcohol faster than the body can dispose of it, you become intoxicated: in California that is a Blood Alcohol Level of 0.08 percent. The third-leading preventable cause of death in the US, 261 individuals die each day from alcohol-related causes including alcohol-related dementias and cancers.
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