inebriate
a community-wide discussion on how to stop chronic public inebriation in the area
Kava users insist that it relaxes both the muscles and mind without causing the kind of inebriation associated with alcohol.
Lots of caffeine may disguise a drinker's inebriation from friends who might otherwise intervene.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Drunkenness & sobriety
alky
battered
beer goggles
binge drinker
binge drinking
blasted
drunk dial
hard drinker
have a few (too many)idiom
in a drunken stupor
inebriate
inebriated
muzzy
ripped
roaring drunkidiom
shit-faced
slaughtered
slewed
smashed
whacked