Part 1: What is alcohol and how does it make us drunk?
Channel: The Conversation
Date: 2018-08-03

What is it in alcoholic beverages that makes us intoxicated and where does it come from? And what is special about the molecule in alcohol that makes it so easy for us to ingest and get drunk from?

This is part 1/4 in our series of videos on alcohol and the body.

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Edited, animated and voiced by Wes Mountain
Script by Emil Jeyaratnam
Reviewed by Terry Mulhern, Rosa McCarty and Jenny Hayes
Music: Bisou de l'enfant sauvage - Being drunk and watching you while you sleep (freemusicarchive.org)