Alcohol Tolerance

Tolerance means that someone who engages in frequent heavy drinking will need increasingly greater amounts of alcohol to experience the same "buzz" of intoxication.

Consuming increasingly larger amounts of alcohol may put a heavy drinker at risk for a number of health problems, such as internal organ damage. In people who drink large amounts of alcohol on a regular basis, the liver has produce higher levels of the enzymes that break down alcohol which puts a strain on the entire digestive system.

So, increasing alcohol tolerance is NOT a good thing. Developing alcohol tolerance can lead to other dangerous behaviors such as driving under the influence. It also increases the chances of developing alcohol dependence.