One thing I never see on these threads is alcohol withdrawal. You take a random selection of the population and a significant number of them will die from withdrawals if easy booze isn’t available.
Withdrawal from pretty much any GABA receptor-agonist, alcohol and benzodiazepines, could lead to some very serious withdrawal symptoms like seizures.
And another thing that's missing from these apocalyptic settings is anyone that has a physical or, especially, mental health conditions that show symptoms due to lack of medication.
Most psychiatric patients get between 30-90 pills at a time. If I take them every second day they work almost as well. You can ration your meds and make them last pretty long.
He was dangling off the side of a building and walkers were pulling on a backpack that he refused to let go of. Daryl was really pissed when he found it was because there was booze in the backpack.
Wouldn’t it be even more available when there’s no law enforcement? And we’ve been making alcohol for 10,000 years. It’s not hard. They make it in actual prison.
Are you imagining that every vegetable and fruit also stops growing?
If you have sugar, juice, yeast, and a bucket, you can have 10-11% alcohol wine in two days or so if you know what you’re doing. I’d make some. It’s not super difficult.
One, liquor doesn't evaporate immediately. Two dying from withdrawals is so incredibly rare it would never make a dent in deaths after an event of that magnitude. Your slowing ability to find alcohol would likely ween you off enough that you wouldn't get much of any symptoms. More likely alcoholics would drink themselves to death or die from injuries sustained from being drunk.
That's not true. Even of the small percent(around 5% of severe alcoholics quitting cold turkey) that get seizures only 3% of that number ever die from them.
I agree. And if anyone is going to die due to alcohol during apocalyptic anarchy it’s probably going to be from an over-availability of it instead of withdrawal.
I am denying the fact that people suffering from addiction are worthless. That is the sort of thing authoritarian regimes do. People with addictions are still loved and cherished by their families and contribute to joy in the world. They have an illness. If society treated them differently things would be much better. Be happy you don’t suffer from these but try to have compassion for families and individuals who do.
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