The fact of the matter is we keep drinking for the effect. There are two factors at play here. Firstly, that the relaxing mental effect induced by alcohol soon wears off and needs to be replaced. Secondly, the feeling doesn’t just wear off leaving us feeling exactly as we did before we took the drink; it wears off leaving a corresponding feeling of anxiety, the net result of which is that we feel less relaxed than we did before taking the drink. So the tendency is to keep drinking and, as dealt with previously, the mental relaxation dissipates before the physical intoxication, with the result
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