If .08 Is Illegal to Drive, What Happens Beyond .08?
Here is more from the Dr. Phil show I encouraged you to watch earlier. (https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-ssl-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=ssl&p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.drphil.com%2Fshows%2Fblack-and-blue-blackout-drunk%2F#id=2&vid=f92308c4a4ba8d33367ee4313910e4cf&action=view)
At .10
At .20
At .25
A few years ago, my cat bit me and my hand became infected. I went to the emergency room and was given antibiotics. They took some blood and the nurse told me my alcohol level was really high -- I think she said .40. She couldn't believe I was still alive, let alone talking and functioning as if sober.
Imagine: I was still functioning well enough at this high level to grab another drink if I were still at home by myself. Then what?
When I felt good drinking, I figured one more would make me feel even better. Then another. I shouldn't have trusted how I felt. The cumulative effect of drink after drink comes suddenly after it is too late.
God kept me alive for a reason. Maybe that reason is to lead you to stop drinking right now as you are reading this.
At .10
- Slurred speech, poor judgment
- Coordination, motor skills, balance impaired
- Uninhibited, slow thinking, emotionality
At .20- All the disabilities from .01
- Disoriented, uncoordinated
- Double vision, blackouts, aggressive
- Vomiting, gag reflexes impaired (may choke on vomit)
At .25
- All of the above
- Mental, physical, sensory severely impaired
- Possible loss of consciousness
- High risk of choking on vomit
- See above, plus:
- Medical emergency zone
- May pass out
- Tremors, memory loss, possible death
- Breathing and heart rate decrease
- Lose bladder control; passed out on the floor in a pool of your own urine
- Possible death is 50%
- Difficulty breathing, heart rate even slower
- Accepted as lethal level
- Death highly probable
A few years ago, my cat bit me and my hand became infected. I went to the emergency room and was given antibiotics. They took some blood and the nurse told me my alcohol level was really high -- I think she said .40. She couldn't believe I was still alive, let alone talking and functioning as if sober.
Imagine: I was still functioning well enough at this high level to grab another drink if I were still at home by myself. Then what?
When I felt good drinking, I figured one more would make me feel even better. Then another. I shouldn't have trusted how I felt. The cumulative effect of drink after drink comes suddenly after it is too late.
God kept me alive for a reason. Maybe that reason is to lead you to stop drinking right now as you are reading this.
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