Cornell student dies visiting UVa friend

<p>jlauer, on a side note, do you know what absinthe is? It's not something that you can just be "given."</p>

<p>Fendergirl,
Re: BAC calculations... A 190lb male who consumes 10 beers over 10 hrs
10beers in 6 hrs = BAC .101
7 hrs .085
8 hrs .069
9 hrs .053
10 hrs .037
For a 120 lb female...
10 beers in 6 hrs. = BAC .279
7 hrs .263
8 hrs .247
9 hrs .231
10 hrs .215</p>

<p>thanks jasmom. what's the "legal" limit? i'm thinking it's .08, however i'm not entirely sure on that? so basically, a 190 lb male can drink 10 beers over the course of 8 hours and not be legally intoxicated - However he would be classified as a binge drinker.. even though he never even was "drunk". 10 beers could be considered a moderate amount for him.</p>

<p>am i incorrect?</p>

<p>i mean, i know people who have outdoor bbq's that last all day during the summer and they'll might each consume 10 beers, yet be fine in the evening when we get together to watch a movie... because it wasn't enough to get them drunk... </p>

<p>like i said, my views are probably skewed for more than one reason.. one being that i don't drink beer and have no clue how drunk you get off of one or ten, and two being that i never "hung out" at frat parties and the ones i did attend at lasted a lot longer than a typical party and we were always very aware of what everyone had to drink and how to take care of them had they drank too much.. we never once had a keg (i personally find them really juvenile) and people always brought their own alcohol, which was a good way to keep everyones drinking under control - people wanted to make what they brought last throughout the evening and once they ran out they were out and would sober up for the rest of the night... plus there was no keg to get beer after beer after beer...</p>

<p>Legal limits depend upon the state. They are based on blood alcohol levels.</p>

<p>Something important that many people don't realize is that a high tolerance level for alcohol is a big red flag that the person could either be alcoholic or on the way to being alcoholic.</p>

<p>People who can drink a lot of booze and still function well tend to think that they are lucky in that they can "handle" alcohol. As a result, they tend to drink a lot and to also be encouraged in this by their friends. </p>

<p>Many people also erroneously think that it's OK to drink as much beer as possible: that only hard liquor leads to drunkness. Once can get as drunk off beer as hard liquor. One can be alcoholic and only drink beer or for that matter only drink occasionally.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, having a high tolerance for alcohol is a sign of early stage alcoholism. </p>

<p>Incidentally, a sign of late stage alcoholism is having a lower tolerance for booze than one had in the past. That indicates liver damage, a very serious physical problem.</p>

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so basically, a 190 lb male can drink 10 beers over the course of 8 hours and not be legally intoxicated - However he would be classified as a binge drinker.. even though he never even was "drunk". 10 beers could be considered a moderate amount for him.

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<p>Yes. If the goal is to simply pickle yourself, a 190 pound man could probably drink less than one drink per hour for quite a while and stay under the legal limit. But, let's not kid ourselves. Anyone drinking 10 beers is unlikely to nurse each one for an hour. Generally, getting to 10 beers involves what would generally be described in the vernacular as "slammin' some brewskis" along the way.</p>

<p>Even at a 10 hour cookout, most people would switch to coffee or soda after 8 hours or so of non-stop drinking...or take at least take a nap on the sofa in front of the baseball game.</p>

<p>Oh my gosh, this is so tragic. I pray for all our kids to be wise, to be strong.</p>

<p>[Q]jlauer, on a side note, do you know what absinthe is? It's not something that you can just be "given."[/Q]</p>

<p>Do you mean that the anise-like taste would give it away? Otherwise, I am not sure why a drink couldn't be spiked with absinthe without the drinker's awareness.</p>

<p>Besides the anise taste, absinthe is green. Hard not to detect it if given.</p>

<p>conyat, I don't understand what the point of jlauer's comment was. Absinthe is a liqueur, not some sort of date rape drug. It has a distinct taste and smell, and having one or two drinks "spiked" with it won't necessarily result in any wild, hallucinogenic trips. It takes a good bit of absinthe to hallucinations to occur, and its effects aren't like those of GHB or other date rape drugs.</p>

<p>cavalier: </p>

<p>I know that absynthe is a liquor (illegal in the US) - I know it's not "the date-rape" drug. The point was that the couple (according to the surviving wife) may have been given some in their drinks without their knowledge. Some now suspect that she and her husband may have drank absynthe because the wife appeared to be more intoxicated (passed out in the hall) than she should have been based on how many drinks she had had that night. another theory is that their drinks were spiked with some kind of drugs without their knowledge. The same theory has been applied to the Natalee case -- she may have been drugged without her knowledge.</p>