The catch about alcoholic beverages is not exactly what you're taught, again and again, during school.
The catch is not that it impairs your thinking and awareness abilities. It is how even though one is fully aware of the situation at hand, carelessness overrules all other emotions (besides lust) and logical reasoning.
This - and nothing else - is what pushed me to commit a sin I would've otherwise not committed.
That, indeed, is quite an astonishing fact considering all the opportunities I'm willing to take in a heartbeat that others would deny in the same, or even less, amount of time.
Perhaps the thought of my now-carried-out transgression had crossed, and even lingered on, my mind.
But the dizzying poison fabricated them into action.