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Summary: Alcohol poisoning is essentially an overdose of alcohol, and it happens when somebody drinks in great excess, causing their medula to become overwhelmed. Discover how autonomic functions stop during alcohol poisoning with help from a medical doctor that specializes in addiction psychiatry in this free video on alcohol poisoning.
Dr. Bernardo Savariego is a medical doctor and psychiatrist in Miami, Fla., who specializes in addiction and substance abuse treatment innovations, as well as buprenorphine/suboxone...read more
"Hello! I'm Dr. Bernardo Savariego. I'm a medical doctor specializing in addiction psychiatry in Miami, Florida. Let's talk a bit about alcohol poisoning. Alcohol poisoning is basically an overdose with alcohol. It happens when somebody drinks in great excess and they say that for level over point 4 is results in death over fifty percent of the time. Now, the way that the person dies in alcohol overdose is because their medula becomes overwhelmed with the alcohol and their autonomic function stop and the person basically stops breathing like with any other overdose. Now, also can happen that the person vomits while they're unconscious and they aspirate the vomit and they could die that way. And also another common way of dying with an overdose of alcohol is when you mix it with other drugs. In pharmacology we say two plus two is not equal four sometime two plus two equals ten. When you mix alcohol with Valium or Xanax or barbiturates, you're going to get a multiplied effect that is going to cause an overdose much more likely and you're going to stop breathing."
eHow Article: About Alcohol Poisoning
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