So, what do we define an alcoholic as?
So, what do we define an alcoholic as?
wow, this thread is just a...'DUDE I GOT SO WASTED LAST NIGHT' thread.
i enjoy a sixer of some beer, but it stops there for me.
A fifth of Jack in 45 minutes on the way to Mardi Gras one year in high school starting at 7am. Good think Louisiana takes off the week of Mardi Gras every year otherwise practice would have been painful. Man I was stupid as a kid.
bangalangadanga wrote:
wow, this thread is just a...'DUDE I GOT SO WASTED LAST NIGHT' thread.
i enjoy a sixer of some beer, but it stops there for me.
Did you read the subject line? What else did you expect?
Why have so many people taken BAC tests? I've been wasted a few times here and there, but I've never had to do one of these tests. Did that many of you get pulled over while drunk, or are you doing this just for fun?
Wow, your story made me depressed. I'm glad you were okay after all of that. I've never been that bad; I can't imagine how that must feel. I've been stumbling and nauseous a few times, but have never thrown up. I remember a guy in college who woke up in his dorm bed with vomit all over his chest and his mouth full of puke. I suppose he could've suffocated himself, but he ended up okay.
I blew a .28 when the police found me passed out on a front lawn. This was also at least 2 hours after I had my last drink and tried to run home. Thankfully this was a wake up call for me, and I have cleaned up my act big time since. It's really not worth it.
My gf has a whooty! wrote: I haven't dranken that heavy since.
You choose "dranken"? Out of all the words for that and you chose "dranken"?
some people own breathalyzers. small ones can fit in your pocket.
Mint Berry Crunch wrote:
some people own breathalyzers. small ones can fit in your pocket.
Why? And how do you know they can fit in my pocket? You don't know how big my pockets are.
lol
hjklhjkl wrote:
So, what do we define an alcoholic as?
"Alcoholism is characterised by some loss of control over drinking, with habituation or addiction to the drug alcohol, causing interference in any major life function, e.g. health, family, job, spiritual, friends,legal."
Basically if you can't control it and still continue to drink despite it having very negative consequences on you.
That's what Ive always thought.
A lot of people I know think its when you binge drink. Like, if you binge drink once or twice a week you are an alcoholic. Also, they say it like its a badge of honor.
alcohol can be bad wrote:
If you are not an alocholic in some capacity you will never get above 0.2. What you think is soooo wasted will probably be 0.18 at max. I blew a 0.24 and felt reasonable at the time but I used to be an alcoholic.
Simply untrue. One of the first times I got drunk I chugged a huge amount of tequila in just a few minutes. Definitely over 0.2 and I passed out shortly thereafter. Lucky not to have died, but I was sick for several days afterwards.
Blood alcohol percentage is just that and anyone can get over .2 if they really want to.
hjklhjkl wrote:
That's what Ive always thought.
A lot of people I know think its when you binge drink. Like, if you binge drink once or twice a week you are an alcoholic. Also, they say it like its a badge of honor.
Binge drinking is a loss of control when drinking so it would qualify. Having too much every once in a while isn't a big deal and I definitly wouldn't say that person was an alcoholic. Doing is every weekend, yeah you are setting yourself up for bad things and could be considered an alcoholic.
naam wrote:
Simply untrue. One of the first times I got drunk I chugged a huge amount of tequila in just a few minutes. Definitely over 0.2 and I passed out shortly thereafter. Lucky not to have died, but I was sick for several days afterwards.
Blood alcohol percentage is just that and anyone can get over .2 if they really want to.
Let me clarify, I was saying that over the course of drinking when you can actually remember bits and pieces of the night it will be impossible for a non-alcoholic to reach 0.20 because their body will not let them get there. You will pass out or puke first. When you chug alcohol quickly you don't give your body that chance and is a good way to end up dead.
That seems very general.
I've seen/lived with an alcoholic and I have not seen those same traits in my friends.
My mother is the person I saw. Thankfully she woke up, got treatment, and is fully recovered. I guess that after seeing how bad she was makes me wonder why people are so general in their definitions.
By "bad" I mean she physically had to drink throughout the day to function. When she got home from work her hands shook so bad she would spill half of her first glass of wine on the kitchen floor. Her breathing was labored, she could barely talk, and she was a nervous wreck. She only finally got treatment when she didn't drink for 36 hours (dad stopped buying her anything and she ran out of wine), went into DTs, fell down, and smashed her face on the floor (3rd time she fell like that).
Not pretty to go through and I guess I get defensive when people throw around generalizations about this because someone gets drunk and pukes on Saturday night.
I got popped for DUI at 0.071 and was quite intoxicated even at that level. I rarely consume alcohol in any form.
Of course, the drug and alcohol evaluation people diagnosed me with "alcohol abuse" and recommended six months of group sessions. What a f*cking joke.
Azaleas wrote:
sberbesa wrote:While we're on the subject of alcohol, is that a good way for an introvert to become more social? Or does it just bring out the strangeness?
Yes, as long as you're not secretly a huge weirdo I guess.
See, it's hard for me to objectively tell... I guess I'll have to find out ;)
Had 3/4 of a big bottle of tequila in less than 20 minutes - doing poppers with 7up and limes. I had a hangover for two days.
I was only about 132 lbs at the time, and a VERY inexperienced drinker.
I do remember a nude pool party, and waking up on the doorstep of a strange house totally naked....but beyond that, it's a little fuzzy.