How Europe's heatwave led to a ban on drinking in public in Paris

🧠🍷 For some people, alcohol doesn’t feel calming. It feels activating. Most people think of alcohol as a depressant. And biologically, it is. But not every brain experiences it the same way. In a small subset of people, alcohol appears to trigger a stronger dopamine response in the brain’s reward circuits. So instead of feeling sleepy or slowed down, they feel: energised more confident more motivated more rewarded by each drink That changes the risk completely. Because if alcohol feels stimula