• acunasdaddy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s not quite right. Alcoholics do tolerate lower level of alcohol (4 drinks) than normal people. But once they get to 8 (which they do - remember these are alcoholics) they don’t get more drink than a normal drink person but they are more than twice as drunk as before and they are less drunk than they really are.

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      1 year ago

      they are more than twice as drunk as before and they are less drunk than they really are

      I can’t make any sense of this part.

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        1 year ago

        Sorry that wasn’t very well written.

        The point is that alcoholics are not MORE drunk than non alcoholics on 8 drinks. They are just as hammered (but not more) than non alcoholics. The problem is that they THINK they are not as drunk while a nonalcoholic may recognize their impairment