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Is it possible to drown on alcohol?

xstayfadedx said:
I'm pretty sure this account is a troll from other posts on bl. Nothing to fret about.
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Lol...just came back to say never mind, I get it now as I looked at some of the other posts started by this person! Thanks xstayfadedx, just one of those days where I need to slap someone stupid to feel better! :D
 
Actually, it was far from trolling. I was genuinly curious. We can't all be scientists. Pardon my ignorance.
 
Read thread title and instantly imagined drowning in a massive vat of ale....mmm....beeer....

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Ninae said:
Actually, it was far from trolling. I was genuinly curious. We can't all be scientists. Pardon my ignorance.
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People drown sober, so they can obviously drown while intoxicated. This thread actually has little to do with alcohol since it seems like you are asking more about drowning in general since you ask if they can float to the top, float on their back until help arrives, etc...

You can only float on your back for so long before you tire enough to drown. If you are drunk you will take bigger risks and head further from shore, or do other stupid stuff that puts you in jeopardy of drowning.

I'm going to close this soon or maybe another mod will, but first I would like to know more about your train of though that led to you asking this question. Do tell...
 
Well supposedly according to OP it just almost happened to a friend of theirs but they just found it really hard to believe that one could drown while drunk.......
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I'm not understanding this question either. A person who's drunk will have slower reflexes all the way around, whether walking, driving, typing or swimming, etc. So it's not a stretch to say drunk person vs. sober person has a greater chance of drowning.

I've read this a few times thinking I must have missed something. I think my IQ has dropped 20 points each since :?
 
No, it's physically impossible to drown while drunk....something about drinking causes your body to absorb oxygen through the skin and breathing is no longer necessary....

It's kind of like how meth makes you impervious to bullet wounds.....
 
BlueHues said:
No, it's physically impossible to drown while drunk....something about drinking causes your body to absorb oxygen through the skin and breathing is no longer necessary....

It's kind of like how meth makes you impervious to bullet wounds.....
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Lol
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Why is so easy to die when drunk in the water? I mean it seems entirely possible if you are passing out and/or vomiting level drunk...but if you're just kind of disoriented and typically boozy you still should be able to swim. It doesn't take away your ability to swim.

Can someone explain to me why it's so dangerous?
 
Its easy todie sober in the water. For this reason, boats are supplied with PFDs (personal flotation devices). Anyone, when immersed in water, rapidly leaches valuable energy (heat) to the water, becomes drained of said energy, and, well, drowns.
Add alcohol, it opens the capillaries near the skin, (flushed look) thus exacerbating heat loss, therefore faster energy drain. This is not taking into account loss of motor skills etc.
Humans do not float naturally on their backs. The only thing that makes them almost positively buoyant are the sacs of air in their chest. When these lungs become full, they sink, well until the decomposition gases cause them to float again
 
Take it easy, I just phrased the question a bit wrong.

I guess it should have been "How likely is it to survive if you start to drown in a drunk state?". As I've seen accounts of it, but I do realise it's not very likely in a drunk state. I was just wondering how great of a chance it could be.

People do start drowning and float up on their back and regain consciousness and I'm guessing if they're in reasonably good shape and not too far from the shore it could be possible for them to swim back in.

This would obviously be before their lungs were filled with water when they would be practically already drowned. I'm thinking for a sober person it could be a reasonably good chance (the survival reflexes are still working when unconscious, even from drugs) but for someone passed out either from alcohol or drugs the chance would obviously be much smaller.

Anyway, that was my rationale behind it, and it wasn't really as stupid as it sounds.
 
Ninae said:
Take it easy, I just phrased the question a bit wrong.

I guess it should have been "How likely is it to survive if you start to drown in a drunk state?". As I've seen accounts of it, but I do realise it's not very likely in a drunk state. I was just wondering how great of a chance it could be.

People do start drowning and float up on their back and regain consciousness and I'm guessing if they're in reasonably good shape and not too far from the shore it could be possible for them to swim back in.

This would obviously be before their lungs were filled with water when they would be practically already drowned. I'm thinking for a sober person it could be a reasonably good chance (the survival reflexes are still working when unconscious, even from drugs) but for someone passed out either from alcohol or drugs the chance would obviously be much smaller.

Anyway, that was my rationale behind it, and it wasn't really as stupid as it sounds.
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Well, no offense, but it does sound really stupid. Common sense would obviously tell you that anyone that is drinking is going to be less likely to survive than someone who is sober. As far as how likely they are to survive, well that is ridiculous question as well. There are so many variables that there would be no way to guess (and guess would be all you could do).

As someone else stated, your posts do frequently sound as if you are trolling. A good number of them state something silly and do not ask a straight question or indicate what your purpose is in posting it.

Regardless of how you "re-phrase" the question it still does not make sense. And you can't really rephrase your OP statement of my friend is drunk and almost just drowned, I just really don't see it.

You asked "wouldn't someone drunk wake up before that point?". Well either you don't have much common sense or you are a kid goofing on here or , =gasp=, you are trolling. If people drown while sober then why would they "wake up" and not drown while drunk???

What the heck kind of "survival reflexes" do you think still kick in even when "you are unconscious from drugs"?? I am very curious to know...seriously..
 
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People don't start to drown the float back up. They sink and die. Have you ever seen anyone in distress in the water?
 
I misphrased the question. I was thinking more of if someone blacked out on something how likely it would be for them to make their way out of the water in that half-conscious state. I've blacked out tons of times but never had anything serious happen to me. One time I was even able to navigate my way through traffic and order a Taxi.

But this seems to happen to people who black out on pills or alcohol all the time. So you can obviously have some consciousness or part of your instinctive survival nature is still working.
 
Ninae said:
I misphrased the question. I was thinking more of if someone blacked out on something how likely it would be for them to make their way out of the water in that half-conscious state. I've blacked out tons of times but never had anything serious happen to me. One time I was even able to navigate my way through traffic and order a Taxi.

But this seems to happen to people who black out on pills or alcohol all the time. So you can obviously have some consciousness or part of your instinctive survival nature is still working.
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Ok I still don't understand what you are saying...if you are blacked out then your are unconscious...if you ar unconscious then your body does not perform voluntary action. Assuming the part of your brain that controls breathing and heart beat are intact then these functions will continue. These are involuntary actions. If you are blacked out or unconscious you cannot talk, walk or even swim. If you are blacked out or unconscious you will not even turn your head out of the water so that you can breathe. If you happen to be face down you will definitely drown if someone doesn't come along and turn you over so that you may breathe air (as opposed to water) then you will drown. in other words, if you are "blacked out" or unconscious (no matter if a result of drugs, alcohol etc or a bump to the head), and you are in the water, don't have a safety jacket on that causes your head to tilt back so that your face is out of the water and no one comes along to rescue you and keep your face out of the water, then when you involuntarily breathe and you breathe in water rather than air, then you WILL DROWN!

Other scenario: you are intoxicated on drugs or alcohol,but are conscious, are out in the water and run into some kind of trouble, it is still MORE LIKELY you will drown than if you were sober. Sober people drown all the time. Intoxicated people would be even MORE likey to drown than sober people due to many different factors. They will not think as clearly, their judement maybe altered, they will not be as coordinated, they might tire more easily and be more likely to panic. I think an even bigger factor that would make intoxicated people MORE likely to drown is that due to poor judgement (which is more likely to occur when intoxicated than while sober), they will be more likely to get themselves in a situatiom that is likely dangerous and take more risks.

This doesn't take a scientist to understand (because I know you told us that you were sorry that you weren't a scientist) but could be reasoned out by most people with a little bit of thinking (or obviously a lot more thinking for some). I'm not sure if you are trying to be funny or annoying or what, but your circling around the subject every which way doesn't make sense. I think most everyone here pretty much gets the idea (concluded from responses of others!)
 
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I disagree. Not the kind of "blacking out" I think of. You hear about people blacking out and still making their way home safely in some crazy way all the time.

One time I blacked out in benzo withdrawal, maybe had some kind of seizure, and suddenly came to myself sitting under a blanket with no clothes on my lower body. My pants were laying on the floor with a piss-soaked crotch and my wet panties were in the nightstand drawer. So I obviously had the awareness to tell I had pissed myself and needed to remove my clothes (thankfully that kind of thing doesn't tend to happen) though I obviously wasn't all there.

It's kind of mysterious to tell what exactly happens when you black out and why you act as you do. But it seems like when your rational mind gets switched off and you lose your sense your intinctual animal-nature gets strengthened and you become like an animal who does what is needed to do just based on gut-Instinct. It's weird, but like you just get this feeling inside that compels you to do something. I'm sure this saves us a lot of the time.
 
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