The following was submitted as a comment to an earlier post by Screedler, but I felt it was strong enough content to stand alone as a blog. Thanks for the honesty Screedler!
The power of the addiction is so strong that it will lead one to literally drink themselves to death. I am not proud of this but after a 3 day binge, a tumble down the stairs (or off a balcony - not quite sure) 2 broke arms and a broke thumb later my BAC recorded at the hospital was .46 - that's not a misprint. Here are some (not) fun facts:
Effects of Alcohol Expressed in Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) levels
0.03 BAC - Slowed reaction time.
0.04 BAC - Federal prohibited limit for commercial drivers license.
0.05 BAC - Increased risk taking and American Medical Association recommended prohibited limit.
0.08 BAC - Recommended prohibited limit for criminal charges and impaired vision.
0.10 BAC - Poor large muscle control, loss of balance, and prohibited limit in most states.
0.17 BAC - National average blood alcohol level of drivers in a fatal crash.
0.19 BAC - National average for first time DUI offender and of persons who have killed police officers.
0.20 BAC - Loss of emotional control.
0.22 BAC - National average for replete DUI offenders at time of arrest.
0.30 BAC - Loss of orientation as to time and place,.
0.35 BAC - Blackouts and stupor.
0.50 BAC - Published overdose level leading to death.
0.74 BAC - Highest recorded blood alcohol level by a US hospital.
I had a near death experience and didn't even think I had a drinking problem. I was drinking again before the casts were even dry. That was 20 years ago. Is there anyone on the face of this earth that could be so stupid. Not likely - they are not here anymore.
After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true - Spock
Screedler
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Captain Kirk to Spock in The Wrath of Khan.
Mild mannered and civilized me drinking Tranya:
Me after Tranya:
These images would go along with your "Mr. Hyde all the Time" blog too.
ScreedlerÂ
Isn't it bone chilling to think of some of the things that you lived though.
I have a few of these times in my past also. There were times that even as I was drifting into unconsciousness I wasn't sure if I was going to wake up or not...and I didn't think I had a problem either.
erinsav
www.whatwinnersdo.com
non- addicts and alcoholics cannot fathom this kind of rationalization and self deception.
Certainly not the solution
found at:
http://echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/star_trek_insp.html
when you first posted. I am glad I caught it- I even remember the episode.
Just (finally) catching up on some of my blog reading. I'm so glad you called this comment out as its own post. I read the original post (on the gag reflex) and this comment (now its own post) just before I went away for the weekend to a wedding -- and it was in my mind all weekend -- as the groom drank four bottles of wine the night before the ceremony -- and my mind ran back to this chart as I mentally calculated what his BAC must have been as he described what he remembered of the evening -- the vomiting, the losing track of time, the stumbling in the bathroom and cracking his nose on the bathtub... And to the previous post as his wife expressed her gratitude that he actually vomited. Your post and this comment were with me, sadly, painfully, all weekend long -- and I'm so sorry they were.
to watch other people deal with the situations that, because of our experience, we already have a pretty good guess about how things will play out.
My binge started out as a bachelor party for one of my best friends and roommate in college. I did not make the wedding as I was in the hospital.
Screedler
that gets them on Star Trek - its the drugs too
I just had to add to the theme
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