Well that is an awkward topic but I don’t know how to phrase it better.
From what I know most hard core alcoholics go for the sweet spot between potency and price, which usually comes out to be cheap vodka. I’ve seen claims that consumption can reach several liters or more a day, and that is just to avoid seizures and withdrawal.
I don’t think I drink that much non-alcoholic fluid in a day, it would seem difficult. Not to mention it would very hard to drink it straight, so you’d need some mixer too.
Hell what happens if they get sick with something that causes severe nausea or vomiting and can’t physically keep the booze down?
I guess to further boil down what I was wondering, isn’t there a point where the tolerance your brain has for the increased GABA levels exceeds your body(and stomach mucus membranes) ability to withstand the alcohol or even take it in?
That would mean sucking it into the lungs instead of swallowing it down into the GI ?
Well I suppose then you could drown. Yes they get so drunk they have difficulty performing the task of drinking.
They also have difficulty with pneumonia because they can’t cough properly.
The thin blood leads to a bleeding in the body and a swollen red nose
The liver complains and can be damaged, it can also start to make cholesterol which causes them pimples ,heart attacks and strokes.
This cholesterol problem can occur in someone who is merely into getting drunk (like two nights a week …) - not just “always drunk” peeps
I am not up on the latest thought in alcoholism – which, considering mothers side of the family is probably a mistake on my part.
For most drunks, you reach a comfort level - sort of like an athlete hitting a plateau. You can “feel good” and function on X amount of booze Y. When you can’t get X amount is where the physical symptoms come in.
(Hospitals will often give booze to a serious drunk when dealing with them. For example, my uncle was in for knee surgery and the nurse was allowed to give him about three fingers of rye every three hours. That plus what other relatives snuck in ------ he survived)
What you ask about seems more the binge drunk and he/she does indeed reach that stage on a regular basis. Thus all the vomit; or as we called it back in the mountains “feeding the raccoons”.
I was a 1-1.5 liter of vodka a day drunk for years. I never considered the physics of volume alone. I know I didn’t eat much, some days nothing at all. Booze hits faster on an empty stomach anyway.
A liter is about 35 ounces. 3 cans of soda is 36. Plenty of beer drinkers can do 36 oz. in an hour or two - 12 over the course of a football game (which is about 4 liters in 4 hours).
Don’t recall ever dealing with chronic vomiting. I’m vomited before, sure. But not the extent where I couldn’t keep anything down at all.
I can stand a couple of shots of straight vodka/liquor, but the prospect of drinking a liter or more straight, and on an empty stomach doesn’t sound appealing and could lead to vomiting.
How much calories are in liquor? I mean you couldn’t go without eating much of anything for too long without running into problems right.
EDIT:You’ve never had pneumonia then, I was vomiting for about a month straight and lost a hell of a lot of my body weight.
In college I saw people successfully drink 60 shots of beer (90 ounces, total of about 2.7 liters) in 60 minutes (“Power Hour”) or even 100 shots of beer (150 ounces, about 4.4 liters) in 100 minutes (“Century Club”).
(By “successfully” I mean they kept them down, of course they ended up quite drunk.)
This is a real problem. Late Late Show TV host Craig Ferguson has stated that the reason he started doing cocaine back in the day was to increase his ability to drink more alcohol.
Really. If you practice basketball you and your body get good at basketball. Practice drinking and you get good at drinking. And you keep the skill. I haven’t had a drink in 2.5 years and I could still drink most of you under the table without breaking a sweat.
I doubt this is true. There have been times in my life where I’ve drank a LOT and stopped for a few years. Starting back, it took a fraction of the alcohol to get me drunk than it did before.
When I was drinking heavily, I never met someone who could out drink me, even hard core Japanese or other Americans. One American friend brought me over to his house, we each downed three or four strong gin and tonics, went through a couple of bottles of wine, opened a fifth and tossed the cap. He passed out, and I went out drinking.
For some stupid reason I though that was cool. :eek:
Agree with what others have said – from observation of a close dear one, at his (peak? bottom?) he could put away an amount that would put 200-lb. me in the ER, with no apparent discomfort (other than becoming totally incoherent ).
i drink anywhere from a pint to a 5th of 151 proof everclear straight (190 proof is illegal in my state) per day because it’s cheap and actually got a punch to it. the trick to keeping it down is just to put the bottle on ice in a cooler or put it in the freezer until it gets very cold. this greatly reduces the burn and fumes and all and it is much smoother going down.
if you want to stop drinking, or have to, prescription medicines (especially long acting benzos like librium, and even better barbituates) can sort of substitute for alcohol due to similar action in the brain.
wanted to add also that with neutral grain spirits like everclear there are no “empty calories” like beer has for example, and it stimulates my appetite more than if i were not to drink. gatorade and ice water do good throughout the day to keep you refreshed and replenished.
if 190 proof is available/ legal in your state, take the cap off and hold a lighter flame to the opening. it’ll be a long invisible flame first (hottest flame), then blue, orange, red. pretty cool.
