Let's talk about Alcohol...

[timothylearyisdead]

The Home Office Police Research Group has revealed a disturbing practice growing in rural communities, of young people injecting alcohol as a means of achieving a quick high. They are exploiting the ready availability of alcohol as opposed to illegal drugs. There is evidence of children as young as 14 injecting spirits, or even cider and beer, intravenously. The result is instant drunkenness since this method makes alcohol seven times more powerful than when taken as a drink. Around 10ml of whisky, less than half a measure, is sufficient to put someone over the drink-drive limit if injected.

Injecting alcohol can introduce bubbles into the blood stream, blocking the flow to the brain and inducing a stroke. It is also very easy to inject a lethal dose, especially as control of quantity is unlikely to be a priority with users of the technique.

Workers in alcohol rehabilitation have encountered this phenomenon before, but usually in people in the advanced stages of dependency and not with any marked frequency. "It is madness to even think about about injecting alcohol," said Dr John Connolly, of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Strathclyde University.

In a recent article, The Sunday Times interviewed a number of young people who had experimented. Lindsay, 18, a history student at Newcastle, injected bourbon whisky in order to win a drinking competition. "I wanted to show I was madder than anyone else." Presumably she succeeded.

The Home Office researchers chose Driffield in Humberside as a representative rural town. They found that drug abuse in general is increasing in such communities, as it has in cities. Although experts in the field say that the number of people injecting alcohol remains small, they are fearful of an increase.

:jointsmile: <- I'll stick to that!

[wrasler]

haha i have the same issue. ive been drinking for a few years now, and i still get nauseous (esp w/ weed). if i puke, its cause of the spins that makes me sick, not my esophagus or stomach being irritated.

[Polymirize]

you seem to be focusing on the esophagus and not the toxins in the system. If you're throwing up while drinking, its your body trying to reject those toxins because its too much for you too handle. Even if you could find a method that would allow you to "keep it down", you'd just be taking the damage directly to the liver and kidneys instead.

As far as I understand it at least, Birdgirl might be able to toss in some knowledge here, being the med student.

But I'd suggest you listen to her and just not set your heart on drinking to excess. Moderate yourself a little, you'll feel classier when you're not throwing up all over your shoes.

[slipknotpsycho]

not to mention a whole lot better in the morning

[Nochowderforyou]

I'm not 100% sure the exact details on why you get sick, but for obvious reasons, alcohol is a poison. Too much poison in ones system results in vomiting.

Another reason is dehydration. Alcohol dries you're body out big time, that's why you get the doomed hangover in the morning. If you're body has lack of water, you'd get the same symptoms.

All in all, drink in moderation. They say it's healthy to drink a glass of red wine or a beer or two a day.

[higher4hockey]

What about just not drinking to the point that you're apt to get sick? Just a thought . . . .

nine times out of ten, if someone is under 21 , that just ain't possible.

[mfitzp]

Germans and the french have these little bottles of some type of spirit they drink the morning after a nite out to cure hangovers aparently it stops u from getting sick 2 i tried it tastes like shit lol

[cameron123240]

ive just come across this cool little thing called the quafer or quaffle or something like that; anyways its a shot glass that has 2 parts, a 2oz bottom, and a 1.5oz top, you pour your chaser like soda or an energy drink the bottom, put the shot in the top, and you drink it down so the last thing to go down is your chaser so you dont taste shit everytime your reaching for your pop after the shot.

maybe im psyching myself out or something;thinking about puking and focusing on the taste, like almost making the sickness come on sooner...

[cameron123240]

something i have found to help though, is smoking herb before drinking...that seems to prolong the amount of time before i get sick, and i don't even feel sick for the whole night, quite a nice effect, except for the fact that i dont want to fail any drug tests, so that isn't really an option at this point.


try it though it does work!

[slipknotpsycho]

in my experiences, drinking anything but your alcohol, will make it more likely for you to puke, i mean it's ok if you have to have it, but if you don't really need it, just drink the liqour, or drink as little of soda or whatever as possible... also, don't mix your alcohols, pick one thing and drink that exclusively... no drinking beer/wine liquor/beer liqour/wine... i mean some people can handle it but you obviously already have problems with handling your alcohol.. which i dont' blame you, i was only able to drink without getting sick a couple of years ago... and i had my first alcohol when i was 14 (first time getting drunk, i had stolen one of my grandpa's beers when i was like 9 and thought it was the most disgusting thing ever.... probably didn't help it was Busch)

and remember take it easy.. one single shot's worth may take awhile to kick in, but your body can only process a shot at a time, anything after that shot is just building up.. for your first time trying to hold it normally... take it slow, find your limits, then don't push them, use that as guidance from that point on... and don't do alot of jumping around or acting stupid once your drunk either as that will more than likely end up in the same end result

take care with your drinking!

unless you're absolutely sure it in the end doesn't make you sick do not drink and smoke... lots of people get sick from drinking and smoking... even i get 'sickly' if i drink enough to get drunk and smoke... it intesnifies the dizziness..