PSY396H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Acetaldehyde Dehydrogenase, Blood Alcohol Content, Alcohol Dehydrogenase
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Alcohol, after caffeine, is the most commonly used psychoactive drug in america, and is the drug most abused despite its effects. Alcohol has been used for millennia mead was brewed from fermented honey. What is alcohol and where does it come from. Produced by fermentation (occurs naturally when yeast cells in the air fall on a product containing sugar) of sugars by yeast sugars may come from grapes (wine), rice (sake), or grains (beer) Yeasts die when ethanol level concentration is about 15%; distillation can then increase the alcohol concentration to produce whiskey, brandy, rum, etc. Distillation is heating the fermented mixture to the point where alcohol boils off in steam, leaving water behind vapor passes through cooling tubes to condense and is collected as hard liquor. Isopropyl alcohol has smaller side chains, and is most useful as rubbing alcohol or as a disinfectant. 10% from the stomach and 90% from the small intestine.
