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What Causes Blackout After Drinking Alcohol?

I had blackout on MDMA and alcohol. Can t remember anything after getting kicked out of club but girlfriend said i acted like kid n got home safely - amazing but scary. Was it too much alcohol? I probable had 7-8 drinks in 5 hours before dropping mdma
Wed, 28 Jan 2015
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Thanks for writing in.

Blackouts can happen due to high levels of alcohol in your system. Since you also had MDMA therefore the action of alcohol is more potentiated and you might have had certain brain dysregulations and then alcohol switches off some of the cognitive functions in the brain. These symptoms are more in some people and you should be careful the next time you are drinking heavily.

When the alcohol levels rise in blood and the same reaches the brain, then the encoding function of the brain gets temporarily affected. The person can no longer remember things happening around and is unaware and disoriented. This is what happened to you. When alcohol levels in blood decreases, the encoding areas start functioning again and the patient comes back to normal. However there is no memory for past events that happened soon after drinking heavily or taking drugs the previous night.
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What Causes Blackout After Drinking Alcohol?

Hi, Thanks for writing in. Blackouts can happen due to high levels of alcohol in your system. Since you also had MDMA therefore the action of alcohol is more potentiated and you might have had certain brain dysregulations and then alcohol switches off some of the cognitive functions in the brain. These symptoms are more in some people and you should be careful the next time you are drinking heavily. When the alcohol levels rise in blood and the same reaches the brain, then the encoding function of the brain gets temporarily affected. The person can no longer remember things happening around and is unaware and disoriented. This is what happened to you. When alcohol levels in blood decreases, the encoding areas start functioning again and the patient comes back to normal. However there is no memory for past events that happened soon after drinking heavily or taking drugs the previous night.