Teens and Alcohol Teens and Alcohol Alcohol use is a personal choice which can cause addiction and lead to violence and criminal behaviour.
Alcohol misuse presents the greatest drug problem in Australia today.
If you take any alcoholic beverage and remove the ingredients that give it taste and colour, you get ethyl alcohol. Remove the water from ethyl alcohol and you get ether. Ether is an anaesthetic that works on the brain and puts it to sleep. The same symptoms a surgical patient experiences under ether are those experienced by a person drinking alcohol. The difference between the two is that alcohol contains water- ether doesn't.