Alcohol Poisoning
Writing three times about alcohol in a 24-hour period? The topical jokes are yours to make.
Alcohol poisoning is something we are all very worried about. I am pretty sure that any sufficiently prissy website about alcohol (especially if it is targeted towards teenagers or their parents, but aren't they all) has to mention the grotesque danger that is alcohol poisoning. Don't leave your friends passed out on the ground, they say. Take them to an emergency room. Whatever the cost. If you think you've drunk too much vodka, plan your funeral now! Alcohol poisoning.
Alcohol poisoning is a really tiny problem. First, let me say that I am talking about, as below, respiratory depression. Not aspirated vomit -- which is also not funny -- and not alcohol in combination with other drugs. Those are both kind of dangerous, but they are also very different things. The first one is easily preventable with first aid, and the second one is what you deserve for being so stupid.
First of all, this article can only point to 317 deaths per year from alcohol poisoning. And only 40 percent of those are from drinking ethanol. The rest are weirdos who drank rubbing alcohol. And of the 126 remaining, probably most choked on their own vomit, since I don't think this report distinguishes between that and alcohol poisoning. Please note that 52 people per year die of aspirin poisoning.
Wikipedia, the repository of all the world's knowledge, can only come up with 5 putative deaths from alcohol poisoning. Of those, 3 don't meet our criteria, and the other two are losers you never heard of. So out of all the famous people who have ever lived, 2 died from alcohol poisoning. It is not a grave threat.
Alcohol poisoning is something we are all very worried about. I am pretty sure that any sufficiently prissy website about alcohol (especially if it is targeted towards teenagers or their parents, but aren't they all) has to mention the grotesque danger that is alcohol poisoning. Don't leave your friends passed out on the ground, they say. Take them to an emergency room. Whatever the cost. If you think you've drunk too much vodka, plan your funeral now! Alcohol poisoning.
Alcohol poisoning is a really tiny problem. First, let me say that I am talking about, as below, respiratory depression. Not aspirated vomit -- which is also not funny -- and not alcohol in combination with other drugs. Those are both kind of dangerous, but they are also very different things. The first one is easily preventable with first aid, and the second one is what you deserve for being so stupid.
First of all, this article can only point to 317 deaths per year from alcohol poisoning. And only 40 percent of those are from drinking ethanol. The rest are weirdos who drank rubbing alcohol. And of the 126 remaining, probably most choked on their own vomit, since I don't think this report distinguishes between that and alcohol poisoning. Please note that 52 people per year die of aspirin poisoning.
Wikipedia, the repository of all the world's knowledge, can only come up with 5 putative deaths from alcohol poisoning. Of those, 3 don't meet our criteria, and the other two are losers you never heard of. So out of all the famous people who have ever lived, 2 died from alcohol poisoning. It is not a grave threat.
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