When a patient inquires how alcohol acts so quickly on his system, the nurse answers that the effect is felt quickly because alcohol is:
a. digested quickly.
b. converted to glycogen immediately.
c. metabolized into ethanol rapidly.
d. excreted in urine slowly.
C
Alcohol is not digested or converted into glycogen, but it is metabolized quickly by the liver to ethanol.
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