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Originally posted by BFulton
For those looking for ideas about how to recognize and take care of someone w/alcohol poisoning, I recommend checking out this organization. http://www.brad21.org/
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Sound advice here.
A lot of people are hesitant to seek medical attention for someone who's had too much to drink, especially if the individual is underage, because they're afraid of the legal repercussions. MIT's medical center adopted an official policy shortly after Scott Krueger's death in 1997, whereby if any intoxicated underage student was brought in, the med center staff would notify the campus police, who would investigate how the student got the alcohol and cite those who had provided it. The policy was later rescinded out of fear that people wouldn't seek medical attention for their friends because they knew they'd be investigated.
The fact is that you can't be too careful. Even if death from alcohol poisoning is rare, it does happen. You don't want to have to live with the knowledge that if you had only called an ambulance, your friend might have lived.
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