Brain Eating Disease

We don't consume alcohol so much as alcohol consumes us. We don't abuse it so much as it abuses us.

We think we're in control of alcohol, but we're not. Like a brain parasite from some science fiction magazine, it takes control and sooner or later turns us into zombie drinking machines.

Here is a quote from alcoholrehab.com:

Alcohol is a type of drug known as a depressant. This means that it inhibits certain receptors in the brain and the result of this is that there is a depressive effect on the central nervous system. It is hardly surprising then that chronic alcohol abuse leads the individual to develop depression. The irony is that many of these individuals will be using alcohol already as a means to escape depressive symptoms. While they may initially feel like they are getting some reprieve they are actually making things worse.

So it's a vicious cycle. We're depressed, so we drink, which makes us more depressed, so we drink some more. This is why I call alcohol "our unfaithful friend". We turn to it for help but it stabs us in the back.