First, you must realize that in this alcohol-phillic society, we jeopardize our health and that of others by not telling the truth about alcohol as a drug. Alcohol, viewed as a drug, is in the general class of drugs known as sedatives, which includes all the barbiturates, including, but not limited to sodium thiopental (commonly, “sodium pentothal”) which is a very commonly used general anesthetic! People who are addicted to either “class” of drug, whether it be alcohol or barbiturates/sedatives, will exhibit both cross-tolerance and cross-addiction to any drug from the other class. When this first became well-known as a result of the study of alcoholics (many of whom also had problems with barbiturates) in the ‘60s and ‘70s, medical science came up with a new term to describe the illness, “alcoholism/sedative-ism” as so many of the factors of one “addiction” were common to the other, including, but not limited to the alcohol/sedative cross-tolerance and cross-addiction.

Second, you must realize that you are risking your life on the advice of people who may not know what they are talking about. For example, justOkay with his BIOS360. If you listen to this kind of advice, YOU MAY DIE!!!

Third (really, this should be first, but I’m trying to “get you to warm up to what I’m saying” to break through your denial), you are an alcoholic! You are addicted to the drug alcohol. Only people truly physically addicted to alcohol exhibit the type of abnormally high tolerance to the drug, alcohol, that you have exhibited. Assuming that you weigh half as much as a drinking male counterpart, drink the same drinks with the same volume and same alcoholic content, drink per drink, over the same period of time, then you have twice their alcohol content. If these men are passing out, at approximately a Blood Alcohol Concentration of 0.2 (0.08 is the limit for drunk driving in many US states)–where normal people lose consciousness, then your BAC is approximately 0.4, where most people–regardless of whether they’re addicted to alcohol or not–start doing one or both of two things: 1) getting brain damage, and 2) DYING!

The fact that you can drink so much alcohol means you’re putting yourself at greater risk for death, severe-injury, disease, etc.

You need to go to a detox or treatment center and have them explain this to you in more detail; ask them to explain the “tolerance plateau” to you.

Now, to cross-tolerance: if you’re having a surgery done, and you’re given a sedative drug as an anesthetic, you may require so much to put you under that you may have complications and be unable to have other-, opiate-, sedative-, etc.-, -pain medication immediately after.

Finally, to my “qualifications”, I’ve been in recovery from drug-, including alcohol-, -addiction, for 25 years, went through 5 months of treatment early on, worked in treatment for a while later on, and am fairly “well read”. Aside from that, in June or July, 1977, at age 21, while drinking at least two six-packs of beer daily, I broke a thumb. 10 days later (to make a long story short), it was set in a hospital. I lied (“minimized”) about how much I was drinking. Thus, one orthopedic surgeon, two anesthesiologists, and four or five interns (it was a “teaching hospital”) listened to me and not to their own better sense. They gave me an initial shot of pentothal; it didn’t put me to sleep. They gave me another one. I was out before they got the needle out. My heart rate and respiration dropped from normal to less than 40 beats per minute and 6 breaths per minute very quickly. They gave me two shots of adrenaline to keep the sedative-overdose from killing me. Then, they gave me a shot of a long-acting stimulant to get my vital signs back up in a range where they weren’t worried I’d potential die later on! THEN, post-operative, they couldn’t even give me an aspirin for fear of causing another overdose or bad-reaction, from all the sedative and all the other stuff they gave me to keep me from potentially dying from the sedative overdose.

Whether it’s through a true cross-addiction (and cross-tolerance), or just through an “addict’s mind-set”, you will most likely have addiction-/dependency-, withdrawal-, or other-problems with any opiate/synthetic-opiate pain medication, any sedatives, any benzodiazepines, etc., that doctors may prescribe for you.

YOU NEED HELP! You won’t find as much effective, timely help here online as you will at a detox, treatment center, or your local hospital, even if you have to go to the ER. I hope you live through this. I hope you haven’t already died. I HOPE YOU GET SOME HELP, OFFLINE! ASAP!!!

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