Student died after heavy drinking session

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Let's face it. We've all (or most of us) done this crap. Drinking till we drop literally into blackout mode. Drinking enough beer to float a battleship and then thinking it would be a great idea to suck down something even stronger like whiskey, or vodka or fcuking turps (almost). The human body can take a tremendous battering but sadly there are so many young bodies that go into shutdown mode.
I don't know what the solution is. Maybe people could take a medical test when they're teenagers to see if they are more prone to alcohol poisoning than others? Maybe some people might have a congenital kidney or liver weakness that they don't know about and that a few blood tests would reveal so that they could be less reckless with booze.

But I think what's most important of all is that young people are taught early how to drink and how to gauge the rate at which they're getting drunk. If they can have a few beers with the family once in a while to practice knowing when and how soon intoxication starts to kick in then they wouldn't be so eager to neck a half-litre of vodka because they're not getting "buzzed" immediately.
My first time getting drunk I drank a pint mixture of vodka, gin, poteen and ETHANOL that my friend kept his dead scorpions in. Because the first few mouthfuls of this revolting Molotov cocktail didn't get me drunk immediately, I drank more of it. Within 45 minutes to an hour I was oblivious. Eventually picked up by the gardai and brought to a neighbour's house where they induced vomiting and then put me to bed and kept watch over me. I was 14. That was a shameful episode. I've seen it in Amsterdam too. People come and have a space-cake. Nothing happens for 40 minutes so they do another one. 10 minutes later they are like something out of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Just taking a little bit and waiting patiently would spare them having an experience that resembles a horror movie.

In Holland you are allowed into a pub at 16 to drink but are only allowed beer. No hard stuff until you are 18. consequently Dutch teenagers (who like to get drunk) don't hide in a field quaffing a Litre bottle of Smirnoff Blue. They learn what their beer limit is in a controlled environment.

Getting pissed is great fun especially when you're young. But getting palatic on paint-stripper spirits like gin and vodka is downright dangerous and young people should be educated that these drinks are not EVER supposed to be guzzled like beer. They should be mixed and sipped slowly.

Condolensces to the family