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When you consider the safeness of a drug, do you also take into account the environment where the drug is taken? I had a friend die while on LSD when I was a k

When you consider the safeness of a drug, do you also take into account the environment where the drug is taken? I had a friend die while on LSD when I was a kid. He didn't die because of the drug, but as a hallucinogen, it is suspected he got himself into a situation where he followed his fancy unaware of the danger of the environment he had entered. Of course, you could say 'but people trip and hit their head and die all the time when they are drunk too', but the difference is, people hit their head and die when are not drunk in equal measures. As a self-declared LSD user, do you consider things other than the long-term chemical effects of the drug? If so, what are those things? If it sounds like I'm picking a fight or trolling, that is not the intention, I am genuinely curious.

ericd 12y ago
The rate of tripping when drunk is much, much higher. I've tripped many more times while drunk than sober (not counting childhood), and I'm drunk fairly rarely. A friend of mine broke his teeth falling down stairs face first while drunk, someone in my school died from falling off a fence while drunk. I've never heard of comparable sober incidents sober outside of high speed sports.
quanticle 12y ago
>people hit their head and die when are not drunk in equal measures. [Citation Needed] I read stories about college kids falling, drowning, crashing their cars, and almost always it's because they were heading home totally smashed from a party. I would say, from my impressions, that the proportion of people hitting their head (or falling into a lake and drowning, or what have you) is far lower for sober people than it is for people intoxicated by alcohol.
- robert_tweed 12y ago
  I knew someone who died aged 20 because he was drunk, tired, and decided to go to sleep at the side of the road. It rained. He drowned in a few inches of water. A sober person has reflexes that would have prevented that.
colordrops 12y ago
> people hit their head and die when are not drunk in equal measures That's just absurdly wrong.
wcummings 12y ago
I assume this is true of most alcohol-related deaths: DUI's, people tripping/falling or just doing something plain stupid.

ericd 12y ago

The rate of tripping when drunk is much, much higher. I've tripped many more times while drunk than sober (not counting childhood), and I'm drunk fairly rarely. A friend of mine broke his teeth falling down stairs face first while drunk, someone in my school died from falling off a fence while drunk. I've never heard of comparable sober incidents sober outside of high speed sports.

quanticle 12y ago

>people hit their head and die when are not drunk in equal measures. [Citation Needed] I read stories about college kids falling, drowning, crashing their cars, and almost always it's because they were heading home totally smashed from a party. I would say, from my impressions, that the proportion of people hitting their head (or falling into a lake and drowning, or what have you) is far lower for sober people than it is for people intoxicated by alcohol.

robert_tweed 12y ago
I knew someone who died aged 20 because he was drunk, tired, and decided to go to sleep at the side of the road. It rained. He drowned in a few inches of water. A sober person has reflexes that would have prevented that.

colordrops 12y ago

> people hit their head and die when are not drunk in equal measures That's just absurdly wrong.

wcummings 12y ago

I assume this is true of most alcohol-related deaths: DUI's, people tripping/falling or just doing something plain stupid.