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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Motor neurons don't care how much tolerance your cerebral cortex thinks it has.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Lol anyone who has lived with an alcoholic knows this.

Though actual research on the subject is always important.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm too drunk to read thought this.. Where's summarize bot?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When they drank alcohol in our study at a dose similar to their usual drinking pattern, we saw significant impairments on both the fine motor and cognitive tests that was even more impairment than a light drinker gets at the intoxicating dose.

So at the "standard" drunk level of 4 drinks, alcoholics are less impaired, but when alcoholics drink more than that they are more impaired than a "normal" drunk person.

So alcoholics can have a higher tolerance for base consumption, but when they pass that they go straight to trashed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

tldr they found in their study that alcoholics/people with AUD can drink 50% more (7-8 drinks) and be twice as intoxicated , as compared to standard drinkers and alcoholics at 4-5 drinks, where the alcoholics were comparatively much less intoxicated than 'standard drinkers' (I think this implies that alcoholics do have a tolerance to alcohol but tolerance is not linear)

Not ground breaking stuff imo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So the headline is lying? Curious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No, perhaps I've poorly explained it. The article's not a very long read though.

[–] neomis 3 points 1 year ago

That title is gibberish.