Alcohol intoxication (acute alcohol intoxication) is a symptom complex of mental, vegetative and neurological disorders caused by the psychotropic effect of alcoholic beverages.
What are the signs of mild alcohol intoxication?
Mild drunkenness is accompanied by a feeling of warmth, hyperemia of the skin, a rapid pulse, increased appetite. Mood increases, feelings of cheerfulness and satisfaction develop, feelings of mental comfort develop, people feel a desire to speak, they strive for activity, speech becomes louder, and movements become more impulsive and sweeping. Attention is easily distracted, thinking accelerates, incoherence and superficiality begin to prevail. As motor activity increases, coordination of movements deteriorates. The quality and volume of work performed are reduced, and the percentage of errors increases. The emotional background to mild alcohol is variable. Under the influence of a trifle cause, fun can easily develop into irritability, resentment, and then again change to the same. After a while, when the drunkenness begins, the mood is gradually replaced by sluggishness and indifference. Motor activity gives way to relaxation; thinking becomes more slow. The state of fatigue increases, and a desire to sleep appears. After a mild period of intoxication lasting on average several hours, no mental or physical disturbances occur, although memories of a period of intoxication persist.
What are the signs of moderate alcohol intoxication?
Moderate levels of intoxication are characterized by more dramatic changes in behavior. Movements become uncertain. The ability to perform relatively simple coordinated actions is reduced. Speech may become
dysartic, louder, because the threshold for auditory perception increases. Slowing down the associative process makes it impossible to pick up a synonym or replace a difficult word. The same phrases are repeated often. Performances are difficult to form and their content is uniform. Attention shifts slowly, only under the influence of any strong stimuli. An intoxicated person cannot assess the whole situation. The ability to critically assess one’s own actions and those of others is greatly reduced. This leads to various kinds of conflicts, which are exacerbated by the reappraisal of the intoxicated self, as well as to the dissolution of desires and desires, facilitating their realization. As alcohol intoxication deepens, behavior is more determined by random fragments and impressions. The drinker's facial expressions are very meager and unexpressive. Alcohol intoxication is followed by deep sleep. After a moderate degree of intoxication, memories of events and actions, both self and others, are vague, with individual episodes being forgotten. After 6-12 hours of intoxication, lethargy, thirst, dry mouth, and discomfort in the stomach, heart, and liver occur.
What are the signs of severe alcohol intoxication?
Severe alcohol intoxication is defined by the occurrence of various depth states of stunning consciousness - up to coma. Some people have epileptiform seizures. Urine and stool may pass involuntarily. After such intoxication, adynamia is observed for a number of days, accompanied initially by ataxia, dysarthria, and autonomic disorders. Insomnia and anorexia may occur. Severe alcohol intoxication is characterized by complete amnesia—drug amnesia.
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