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A mixed drink, or mixed refreshment, is a drink that contains a considerable measure of ethanol (casually called liquor), a depressant which in low dosages causes elation, diminished uneasiness, and amiability and in higher dosages causes inebriation (tipsiness), daze and obviousness. Long haul utilize can prompt to liquor mishandle, physical reliance, and liquor addiction. 

Drinking liquor assumes an imperative social part in many societies. Most nations have laws directing their creation, deal, and consumption;[1] a few nations boycott such exercises altogether. In any case, mixed beverages are lawful in many parts of the world. The worldwide mixed drink industry surpassed $1 trillion in 2014.[2] 

Liquor is a standout amongst the most generally utilized recreational medications on the planet. For example, in 2015, among Americans, 89% of grown-ups had devoured liquor eventually, 70% had smashed it in the most recent year, and 56% in the last month.[3] Alcoholic beverages are normally separated into three classes—brews, wines, and spirits—and regularly contain in the vicinity of 3% and 40% liquor by volume. 

Revelation generally Stone Age containers propose that deliberately matured beverages existed in any event as right on time as the Neolithic time frame (cir. 10,000 BC).[4] Many nonhuman creatures additionally expend liquor when given the open door and are influenced similarly as people, in spite of the fact that people are the main species known to deliver mixed beverages intentionally.[5]