Originally Posted by
NoelleR 
Like many here on SR, I'm a believer in NOT romanticizing alcohol, but I'm also a firm believer in NOT demonizing it either.....................:
These may be your beliefs/opinions, but they're not facts. Alcohol is not a poison/toxin, no more than water or salt.
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But it is a poisen. Getting drunk is your brain's reaction to the toxin. People usually become unconscious when they drink more than a certain amount. Sometimes (for various reasons), they can drink beyond that and then die of alcohol poisening! Short of that, repeated alcohol use can permanently damage various parts of th body including essential organs. How is that not a poisen?