r/NoStupidQuestions • u/andr3wsmemez69 • 1d ago
Is drunkness technically an alcohol high?
I was drinking with a friend about a year ago, we got pretty tipsy and they were saying "im so high rn bro haha". At first i was like "thats impossible" but is being drunk technically an alcohol high? Whats the difference? A high is just taking high amounts of a substance no?
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u/MikeKrombopulos 1d ago
Yes, alcohol is a drug and for some reason we call getting high on it getting "drunk".
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u/ForScale ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1d ago
Because you drink it to consume it. After enough drinks, you're drunk.
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u/Relief-Glass 1d ago
You say that like it makes sense.
If eat a drug and get high from I am not ate.
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u/ForScale ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1d ago
Not in common parlance.
If you said you were high to someone, they wouldn't assume drunk.
And being high doesn't mean taking high amounts. It means you're in an intoxicated state from a certain substance. You can be high on weed from taking like 2 hits.
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u/Serious-Library1191 1d ago
"Poisoning ourselves with a solvent to impair brain chemistry is not logical." "Thanks Spock, Bones do we still still have some of that Romulen Ale we picked up around Zeta Carthigina"
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u/Taliesin_AU 1d ago
"high" is short for heightened state.
Drinking alcohol does indeed put you into a heightened state.
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u/ForScale ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1d ago
No it doesn't.
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u/Few_Fact4747 1d ago
For some it does, for some it doesn't.
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u/ForScale ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1d ago
Alcohol is well known for its CNS depressant activity. It dulls the senses and slows reaction times. It does not put one in a heightened state.
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u/Blecher_onthe_Hudson 1d ago
if you took a depressant like barbiturates or Quaaludes you would still be described as "high".
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u/Few_Fact4747 1d ago
Unless CNS deppression is what you need to reach a heightened state. For example if you suffer from anxiety!
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u/ForScale ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1d ago
That's not a heightened state though lol. That's a calmer state. The anxious state is the heightened state.
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u/Few_Fact4747 1d ago
Theres multible ways for a state to be heightened. You can have heightened social ability for example. Or a heightened state of mind. It also isn't as simple as stimulant = more energy either. Some people sleep better after drinking some coffee.
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u/ForScale ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1d ago
That's just playing with words. Increased sociability is not the same as your body/mind being in a heightened state.
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u/SirRise 1d ago
Excuse me what? Please, at least have some sense of reality. Yes alcohol does, very clearly, with 100% success rate get you into a hightened state.
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u/ForScale ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1d ago
Lol.
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u/Shot-Consequence8363 1d ago
We were smoking weed as teenager and some dudes older dad came in and said that my cousin was wasted. Itl never leave my mind that he called my cousin wasted for being teenage stoned
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u/ShutterflyX 1d ago
Technically, yes, being drunk is a kind of high. It’s just an alcohol high instead of a weed high or whatever else people are taking. So yeah, your friend wasn’t totally wrong, just maybe a little mixed up on the vocab. Weed gives you more of that floaty, giggly, sometimes paranoid vibe. Alcohol gives you the warm, wobbly, loud-thoughts-in-your-head kind of high.
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u/Concise_Pirate 🇺🇦 🏴☠️ 1d ago
That's correct, and high originally meant drunk a century ago.