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.
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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.