The rate of tripping when drunk is much, much higher. I've tripped many more times while drunk than sober (not counting childhood), and I'm drunk fairly rarely. A friend of mine broke his teeth falling down stairs face first while drunk, someone in my school died from falling off a fence while drunk. I've never heard of comparable sober incidents sober outside of high speed sports.
Re:Testing Legal Highs Would Save Lives
by quanticle on Saturday November 29, 2014 @06:17PM
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>people hit their head and die when are not drunk in equal measures.
[Citation Needed]
I read stories about college kids falling, drowning, crashing their cars, and almost always it's because they were heading home totally smashed from a party. I would say, from my impressions, that the proportion of people hitting their head (or falling into a lake and drowning, or what have you) is far lower for sober people than it is for people intoxicated by alcohol.
Re:Testing Legal Highs Would Save Lives
by robert_tweed on Sunday November 30, 2014 @01:09AM
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I knew someone who died aged 20 because he was drunk, tired, and decided to go to sleep at the side of the road. It rained. He drowned in a few inches of water.
A sober person has reflexes that would have prevented that.
Re:Testing Legal Highs Would Save Lives
by colordrops on Saturday November 29, 2014 @09:11PM
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> people hit their head and die when are not drunk in equal measures
That's just absurdly wrong.
I had a friend die while on LSD when I was a kid. He didn't die because of the drug, but as a hallucinogen, it is suspected he got himself into a situation where he followed his fancy unaware of the danger of the environment he had entered.
Of course, you could say 'but people trip and hit their head and die all the time when they are drunk too', but the difference is, people hit their head and die when are not drunk in equal measures.
As a self-declared LSD user, do you consider things other than the long-term chemical effects of the drug? If so, what are those things?
If it sounds like I'm picking a fight or trolling, that is not the intention, I am genuinely curious.