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and The Mellanby Effect Fourth effect: The falling-down phase At about the alcohol level of 0.15 g/100ml the cerebellum becomes affected and maintaining your balance could become difficult. With a bit of luck, by this time your friends will have placed you somewhere safe. Fifth effect: The down-and-out phase We hope you are lying down in a safe place, because at this stage the wave is crashing at 0.25 g/100ml over your diencephalon and the mesencephalon (midbrain). You become tired and very unsteady – you are now probably out for the count. You start shaking and you vomit. Maybe your reflexes will not be so badly suppressed that you cannot protect your airways, otherwise you could inhale your own vomit and die. Your consciousness is now suppressed, and you may be comatose. Sixth effect: In the Valley of the Shadow of Death Should the alcohol wave wash further, driven by a blood alcohol level of 0.35 to 0.40 g/100ml, and it reaches your brain stem, including the medulla oblongata, you have life-threatening problems. The centers controlling your breathing and your blood circulation are suppressed, and you are busy dying. The chronic drinker These effects refer to the social drinker. Chronic abuse of alcohol will increase someone’s tolerance, and would therefore cause these effects to become visible only when a chronic drinker has reached much higher levels of alcohol in the blood than those mentioned above. Usually the person would appear to be less under the influence at a specific blood alcohol concentration (BAC), when the BAC is busy dropping, than when it is busy increasing. This is called the Mellanby Effect, and is the result of the development of acute tolerance in the brain with regards to alcohol. Dr. Izak Loftus, Forensic and Anatomical Pathologist, Pathcare-group, Health24 Simple Math: May 7, 2000, 65-year-old Simonne Croppi was killed when he drove his Ford Escort into an unnoccupied car road- parked along the edge of Peridot and Badger Rd. in Fairbanks. He had been drinking and had a BAC that was over the legal limit. (AHSO) 50
““ The next thing I knew The Story of Racheal Ramage 51 Fort Richardson is implementing some alcohol-related crackdowns due to the increase in drunken driving arrests since the soldiers have returned from Afghanistan... The day was April 18 th , 1999, two days before my nineteenth birthday. I was a senior in high school and working part-time on the weekends at Palmer McDonalds’ and had to be at work at 5:00 a.m. I was a weekend breakfast manager. I remember heading out the door and not wanting to leave the house. I walked to my car and felt an uneasiness so I went back in the house to have my mom watch me leave. She too had an early morning for she worked at 6:00 a.m. that day. As I drove toward work, it felt like any other early morning. I stopped at the four-way stop and turned right heading down winding Trunk Road. Meanwhile, a 20-year-old military man was heading to a friend’s house after drinking at our local bars and deciding to get behind the wheel of his truck and head down the same road I was on. I headed down the road and saw headlights coming straight for me and I don’t remember the rest…I vaguely remember the paramedics calming me down and trying to get me out while I screamed because of the intense pain. The next thing I knew I was in the hospital and all my loved ones were there and I was headed into surgery. This is what happened and what I still can’t remember to this day: The drunk driver hit me head on; he sprained his ankle, my femur bone broke in three places, my bladder punctured, my face was torn apart from the windshield, the steering wheel had me pinned down and the Jaws of Life had to be used to remove the roof of my car in order for me to get out. But, I was alive, thankfully! Later I would find out that it is hard to be a survivor of a crash like that. It is a blessing, please don’t get me wrong. Every day I thank God for saving me that morning. It was a challenge to learn to walk again and deal with the pain that it caused physically and emotionally. The biggest challenge was coming to terms with the fact that all of this could have been avoided if that young man did not drive while intoxicated. I know that it was a choice he would take back any day, for his military career was done and in court proceedings later, after the crash, he is now a felon for the rest of his life, for what? A night of fun? With a simple call for a cab or a ride from a sober friend this could all have been avoided.
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