There were several of the students there that had been drinking. That's pretty clear. We could smell alcohol on the breath of several of them,

When I'm drinking, it's like waiting for a time bomb to go off. I don't feel in control -- not completely.

it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain —
Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.