In fact, most people had their first drink around the age of thirteen, even though the legal drinking age is 21 just about everywhere in the United States. Nearly 10 million American teens are drinking alcohol sometime this week. You might want to know a little about alcohol before you answer that question.
Alcohol is really a natural product that is created by the process of fermentation.
But when you drink this natural product called alcohol, it is absorbed into your bloodstream, where it affects the central nervous system. The central nervous system is the control center for your whole body. Alcohol acts to slow down this control center. Since alcohol has a sedative effect, small amounts can reduce anxiety. Alcohol tends to block some of the commands the brain is sending to various parts of the body, and so it alters your senses.