New Study Suggests that Alcohol and Drug Use can Reinforce Certain Types of Memory

The Waggoner Center for the Study of Alcohol and Addiction Research has found evidence suggesting that alcohol use can actually improve our subconscious memory to the point that we really do want to recreate the situations and feelings we experienced at the time of use.

When we drink alcohol (or shoot up heroin, or snort cocaine, or take methamphetamines), our subconscious is learning to consume more. But it doesn't stop there. We become more receptive to forming subsconscious memories and habits with respect to food, music, even people and social situations.

Source:  Science Daily http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110412101627.htm