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To: razorback-bert
Government needed to take responsibility for the problem by banning cheap booze

This isn't a solution, the addicts will change to home-made alcohol. Any kitchen is good enough for making it. I'd propose to bill those drunk intensity care patients for the care.

6 posted on 03/03/2014 10:32:57 PM PST by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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To: Freelance Warrior

Making crappy wine is pretty easy. Distilling the hard stuff, not so much.

It’s relatively difficult to get severe alcohol poisoning from drinking beer or wine, simply because of the volume of liquid that must be consumed.

Most of the people who die every year in the US from acute alcohol poisoning were doing shots, quite a few of them trying to down 21 shots on their 21st birthday. Many of them young women, who have lower body mass and generally a slower metabolic reduction of alcohol. Bad news when they try to match the guys drink for drink.

A lot more people would die of alcohol poisoning if the vomit reflex didn’t mean one usually unloads the alcohol before it can all be absorbed. And, of course, a lot of people pass out before they can get enough down to kill them.

Interestingly, one of the best ways to die of acute alcohol poisoning is to combine heavy drinking with marijuana, which suppresses the vomit reflex very effectively. As marijuana becomes more commonly used and socially acceptable, we can expect more deaths from alcohol poisoning


26 posted on 03/04/2014 6:16:02 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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