Sunday, July 20, 2008

Alcohol and Blackout


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By Koji Nishiyama (544)

Summary:
First of all, alcohol effects the blain. For example, blurred vision, slurred speech, slowed reaction times, impaired memory and so on. These happen detect after only one or two drinks. Blackout is one of alcohol effect. Drink too much alcohol, especially when drink quickly and an empty stomach, that cause blood alcohol levels are going up very quick, it can produce a blackout. In addition, blackout is more common alcohol effect. 772 colleges of students surveyed about their blackout experience. 51% of students have blacked out at some point in their lives, and 40% have blacked out in the year before the survey. Moreover, the students could be join dangerous events such as a violent crime and so on, but they couldn’t remember.

My Opinion:
Actually I drink a lot, and I have blacked out a lot of time. When I blacked out, I remember only disconnected memories. After drinking, I usually ask my friends what I did, and find out what I did. In my case, I hope I am not too bad, and always I lost fun memories, so I feel like waste the times…. Anyway, there are a lot of parties or events. We should know own limit and drink slowly. Otherwise, it’s could be lose friends, could be a crime or so on, so let’s drink slowly, eat some foods before drink, and have fun!!

5 comments:

Yoko said...

I don't drink a lot.
And I learned how dinking effect you when you drink before 20 years old. So I am just before 20, I don't drink.
Any way, as this article says, driniking habit is really bad.
The people who drinks a lot, Be Careful.

Julie said...

I agree with your suggestion, we should know our limits to drink. I don't drink a lot because I've learnt my limit through my experiences. And I always try to drink with something to eat, not only drinking. It helps me to avoid alcohol effects, I think. As the article said, there are many triggers to bad situation by drinking too much, so we should be careful to drink.

Sandy said...

I don't like drink.
Drink too much is not good for people's health, especially many students can not limit themselves. As the article said,the students could be join dangerous events, but they couldn’t remember.
So be careful when you drink.

Bruce said...

I don't like to drink, because I had a bad memory about drinking when I was freshman. I had experienced blacke out for the first time, and it makes me crazy.
I heard about this problem before.
Too much alchol can make a lot of problem like blackout.
We have to limit our drinking, and it can help us reduce our stress.
In fact, alchol makes us feel happy when we have some trouble, so we have to avoid too much alchol drinking.

Sunyoung Park said...

I don't drink a lot, so I don't have experience about that. However, I could have indirect experience from my friends. I think drinking habit has some kind of pattern. So, if you drink a lot habitually, you would often have blackout. Finally, having good drinking habit is important for your healthy and others who drink with you.