Even though things are really bad, people are still out having a good time, and partying like it's 1999, when things were really good, or at least good relative to how bad things are right now. Now there is quite a difference between alcohol poisoning and a drunken spill, so I don't see how it's fair to lump all of these incidents together for reporting purposes.
Maybe people are just more uptight now, and when they get drunk they think "o wow I better go to the hospital." Maybe it's because of all the iPhones, and everybody knows when you're drunk. Less privacy may be causing this. Look at this guy, he put these traffic cones on his head to hide his shame.
In the old days you just slept it off and nobody knew. Plus if you went to the hospital if you were just drunk they didn't report you. Now they're a bunch of goodie goodies. If you went to the hospital after a bar fight you would say "I fell" and they would say, "yeah, that's right." Now they take your car away. The whole society is just sissified.
Heavy boozing has caused a shocking spike in drunken injuries and emergency room visits in New York, a troubling new study says.
Nearly 74,000 people wound up in hospitals in 2009 for alcohol-related reasons, compared with just 22,000 in 2003 - a jump of nearly 250%, said the city Health Department study, which was released last week.
"Excessive alcohol use in general is a serious problem," said Health Commissioner Thomas Farley. "The data suggest that the problem is getting worse."
Hard drinkers wind up in the ER for reasons ranging from alcohol poisoning to barroom fights and drunken spills.
While the majority of alcohol-related deaths in New York - 1,537 adults in 2008 - resulted from health problems, the study said, a solid proportion were caused by accidents, suicides and homicides.
[New York Daily News]
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