Consuming alcohol while inebriated and entering cold water is extremely dangerous and can lead to drowning. — Whalespan
Consuming alcohol while inebriated and entering cold water is extremely dangerous and can lead to drowning.
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We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“The way to do that is to understand that alcohol lowers core body temperature, okay? It can make people slightly hypothermic. It's going to drop core body temperature. So if you were inebriated and you went and got into a body of water, right, a pool or a lake or something, first of all, that's extremely dangerous to do while you're inebriated, right? People drown all the time. People drown, they die as a consequence of doing that, so please don't do that.”