The scariest is when someone can’t stand for very long, and they do that sideways stumble and just drop to the ground...a person can kill themselves free-falling their forehead into the coffee table or curb or whatever.

Which is why every group should have the Designated Sober Friend (tm).

And from the other side... if you are planning on getting (as we called it back in the halcyon days of 2007) schwasted, please make sure that someone in your group is responsible even when drunk, or at least gives a damn about you.

I think it’s important to add to this that NOT EVERYONE THROWS UP. I’ve personally witnessed someone go downhill like this without ever throwing up. By the time we realized she was worse than we thought (because she never got sick) the paramedics told us if we’d waited any longer, she would have been dead. She downed…