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Drunk Driver had a .627 BAC!!!

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JimKiler said:
If this guy quit drinking cold turkey I bet it would cause issues with his body and kill him.
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Yeah, when you're that much of an alcoholic you're at high risk for DTs if you just cut yourself off. Serious alcohol withdrawal is not pretty.
 
vi edit said:
Doesn't seem that high? Some of the highest ever recorded in the US were around .7. .5 and above is a level that is deadly to many people.
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Sorry I phrased that poorly. It's very high, but still believable for a hardcore alcoholic.
 
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This. Although that amount be lethal to the the occasional binge drinker, alcohol/benzo tolerance really has no limit, and will keep going up the more often you drink.

Hardcore alcoholics can easily put away 40-50 shots of vodka (1-1.5oz) in a night, just like they can easily take 20mg of Xanax. Alcohol really is a hell of a drug; it's stronger and more physically addictive than heroin and even benzos.
 
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Xyclone said:
This. Although that amount be lethal to the the occasional binge drinker, alcohol/benzo tolerance really has no limit, and will keep going up the more often you drink.

Hardcore alcoholics can easily put away 40-50 shots of vodka (1-1.5oz) in a night, just like they can easily take 20mg of Xanax. Alcohol really is a hell of a drug; it's stronger and more physically addictive than heroin and even benzos.
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Stronger and more addictive than Heroin? Yeah right
 
MetalMat said:
Stronger and more addictive than Heroin? Yeah right
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I've never tried stronger opiates than hydrocodone, but heroin is really not that powerful, a lot of people are addicted to oxycodone (~same potency as H) and prescription opiates that are even more powerful than heroin: Dilaudid, Opana, etc.

Research has shown crystal methamphetamine to be the most mentally addictive drug, with alcohol/benzodiazepines next, and finally heroin.

Alcohol, benzos, barbiturates (anything that has activity at the GABA receptors, basically) make you extremely physically addicted and can even kill you if you kick them cold turkey. And the mental addiction is wicked, since you become extremely anxious upon withdrawal. Some people don't realize how powerful alcohol and prescription drugs are.

What I recommend: staying away from hard drugs completely, not abusing prescription drugs, and just sticking with weed. Have a few beers, get nice and buzzed/drunk, but don't abuse hard drugs like alcohol by drinking every day.
 
The BAC level of 0.45 is the average fatal dose for non-alcoholic adults, at which point breathing and heartbeat stop. Late stage alcoholics, whose systems have undergone what is known as "cellular adaptation", can still function at this and even higher levels.

Keep in mind that true untreated alcoholics, as opposed to "problem drinkers", suffer from a chronic, progressive, fatal disease that modern medicine still doesn't understand; not from a lack of moral character, willpower, or judgement.
 
i wonder what the highest ever recorded alive is

thanks google, wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content
In 1995, a man in Wrocław, Poland, had a car accident. At the hospital, his BAC was determined to be 1.48%. Concerned that their equipment was malfunctioning, doctors also performed five separate lab tests, all of which confirmed the man's blood alcohol content. He died a few days later from wounds from the car accident. Police were baffled as to how an individual could attain such a high blood alcohol. Later, police discussions with his brother in-law revealed that he had "beer bonged" pure grain alcohol allegedly stolen from his place of work, a chemical plant
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