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[franklin]

Saying that the more water you drink the more you will pee is agreeing with my point, not yours. The more alcohol you put into your system, the more drunk you will get. And being more drunk does not improve your motor skills. Drinking does not improve the motor skills of teetotalers and it does not improve the motor skills of lushes. Drinking certainly has a lesser effect on someone with greater tolerance, but the effects do not move in the opposite direction from someone with greater tolerance. The claim that you can improve your motor skills by drinking is every bit as false as the claim that you can cause a balloon to float by filling it with rocks.

What do you know about alcohol withdrawal syndromes, why they occur, or depressant vs. anti-depressant brain physiology? For chronic drinkers with tolerance, having a few drinks will improve their motor functions. Unless you think having shakes, dizziness, and delirium are better alternatives.

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

What do you know about alcohol withdrawal syndromes, why they occur, or depressant vs. anti-depressant brain physiology? For chronic drinkers with tolerance, having a few drinks will improve their motor functions. Unless you think having shakes, dizziness, and delirium are better alternatives.

Nicely done. You proved me wrong.

 

[♪alt13]

I am what you would call a functioning alcoholic. I have drank almost every day since I was 16(now 33) and almost every week sinve I was 13. I also have bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder. I have been hospitalized twice from syptoms of being sober(heart arythmia, nausea, seizure, paranoia). In the last six months I was hospitalized for nearly a month for my mental health.

I can say from experience that some of you are 100% ignorant about the how, why, etc of this. That's not surprising as it is hard to understand even when you deal with it everyday.

 

[franklin]

I am what you would call a functioning alcoholic. I have drank almost every day since I was 16(now 33) and almost every week sinve I was 13. I also have bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder. I have been hospitalized twice from syptoms of being sober(heart arythmia, nausea, seizure, paranoia). In the last six months I was hospitalized for nearly a month for my mental health.

I can say from experience that some of you are 100% ignorant about the how, why, etc of this. That's not surprising as it is hard to understand even when you deal with it everyday.

I'm one of the unlucky 5% that have DT. The stories I could tell you of the last time...

 

[infection]

The argument that an alcoholic would do better with (some) level of alcohol would be true, but only in relation to if they had no alcohol. It wouldn’t make them a better driver (relative to anyone else), it would just make them a less impaired driver relative to themselves if they were undergoing withdrawal. And even at that, it really depends on the level of intoxication. It’d be quite tough to make an argument that a heavy alcoholic would be a better driver at a BAL of 450 than at 150.

In any case, relative to this situation, we can argue whatever we want about whether or not being at a higher BAL would “improve his driving,” the reality is that he was going 120 MPH. Granted, going 120 MPH doesn’t necessarily imply someone is intoxicated, but it’d be hard to believe, with his record, that he’d be doing 120 with an open container if the alcohol wasn’t causing some kind of impairment, regardless of his BAL.