"The Symptoms of Alcohol Poisoning You Need to Know" - Maggie O’Neill
Here's something you probably already know but bears repeating: Alcohol is a drug—and while it's available pretty much everywhere and can be totally fine in moderation, too much of it can cause some serious damage to your body. Essentially, alcohol poisoning is an overdose on alcohol, said Peter Shearer, MD, chief medical officer of Mount Sinai Brooklyn. Dr. Shearer recommends thinking about the condition as a point on a spectrum. Mild intoxication is on one end, and alcohol poisoning is on the opposite end. While, over time, intoxication itself can cause a variety of health problems such as liver and heart trouble, it’s not the same as alcohol poisoning, which is technically “when you’ve surpassed your body’s ability to metabolize the alcohol.”
— Peter L. Shearer, MD, FACEP, Chief Medical Officer, Mount Sinai Brooklyn, Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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