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Symptoms of varying BAC levels. Additional symptoms may occur. The short-term effects of alcohol consumption range from a decrease in anxiety and motor skills and euphoria at lower doses to intoxication (drunkenness), to stupor, unconsciousness, anterograde amnesia (memory "blackouts"), and central nervous system depression at higher doses.
As drinking increases, people become sleepy or fall into a stupor. At very high blood alcohol concentrations, for example above 0.3%, the respiratory system becomes depressed and the person may stop breathing. [22] Comatose patients may aspirate their vomit (resulting in vomitus in the lungs, which may cause "drowning" and later pneumonia if ...
Alcohol is responsible in the world for 2.6 million deaths and results in disability in approximately 115.9 million people. Approximately 40 percent of the 115.9 million people disabled through alcohol abuse are disabled due to alcohol-related neuropsychiatric disorders. [ 96 ]
A dad waiting in the pickup line at a Florida elementary school was denied access to his kids after school staff realized he was “drunk out of his mind,” according to investigators.
Forty-nine students were aboard the Rush City Public Schools bus that drove off a Rush City road around 8:10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 15, according to the Chisago County Sheriff’s Office. No students ...
A Sussex County bus driver was convicted this week of more than two dozen counts of child endangerment for operating a bus with students aboard while drunk last year, the prosecutor's office stated.
Public intoxication, also known as "drunk and disorderly" and "drunk in public", is a summary offense in certain countries related to public cases or displays of drunkenness. Public intoxication laws vary widely by jurisdiction, but usually require an obvious display of intoxicated incompetence or behavior which disrupts public order before the ...
A deputy head teacher has been banned from the profession after going into school apparently drunk on a number of occasions. Natalie Arcos-Diaz, turned up to work at Eastfield Primary School in ...