Are alcoholic blackouts harmful?
They are much more harmful in the psychosocial sense than medically, although repeated blackout drinking may result in permanent changes in the brain. During the amnesia, one is typically functioning as a beast, without normal restraint of emotions, impulses, and desires that may result in enormous harm to self and others. Violence during blackouts is common, as well as grevious sexual errors, verbal abuse, and bizarre behavior that will certainly be remembered by important observers, like one’s family, employers, friends and former friends, and neighbors. If you have ever had an alcoholic blackout, tell no one — not even your doctor. There is no treatment for alcoholic blackouts other than abstinence, nor is there any treatment for addiction that protects one from further alcohol consumption. The fact of your alcoholic blackout may be held against you in many ways. It will put you into a special category that is discriminated against by criminal court, family court, health care, and t
