Wikinaa: Alcoholic beverages Main article: Alcoholic beverage
Ethanol is the principal psychoactive constituent in alcoholic beverages, with depressant effects on the central nervous system. It has a complex mode of action and affects multiple systems in the brain, most notably ethanol acts as an agonist to the GABA receptors.[65 ----------------------- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazapine Therapeutic properties of benzodiazepines are mediated by enhancing the effect of the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA at GABAA receptors, resulting in a depressant effect on the central nervous system.[4]
