So Antabuse and alcohol doesnt automatically just kill you?

Answer 1

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You're right in thinking that it's not 'automatic' - but you'd be wrong to think you can get away with it. Even non automatic doors can slam shut.

Antabuse is used to scare a person into not drinking. For very good reasons. Antabuse disables a liver enzyme called alcohol dyhydrogenese (ADH). This means that when alcohol is consumed it is not metabolised and instead enters the blood stream as formaldehyde - essentially - that nasty stingy stuff that stinging ants have - or stuff that medical specimins are pickled in.

And that's what enters the brain and gives the worst case of headache, followed by nausea and ultimately death in the most unpleasant way.

It takes several days for the liver enzymes to 'recover' and thinking that 'I haven't taken a pill today so it's all right' is flawed and could lead to a death from that one and only drink too many,

Anybody who is thinking of drinking whilst taking Antabuse should go straight to their doctor and ask for alternative help. Do not experiment. Unless you want a horrible horrible death.

Answer 2

Antabuse just makes you incredibly sick if you drink while taking it. The stupid thing is, if you plan on drinking and just skip your daily dose, you don't get sick, so you'd have to really make a conscious decision to make yourself sick to both take the med and drink.

Answer 3

It CAN kill you, yes. It will DEFINITELY make you sicker than you have ever been (or ever imagined you could be) in your life and you will end up in the hospital.

Answer 4

if you start to peuke up blood and the lining of your stomach then this cold become irrepairable. with no stomach and a damaged liver, what do you expect? to live forever? how old are you? the older you are the less likely that you will recover! you better not be using people here to help you find the best way of topping yourself!

Answer 5

Actually the mortality rate is higher than you think! Liver failure to name just one. DONT mess about with it. Contradictions are there for a good reason!

Dont think you can skip a dose too and drink! It does NOT work!

It is an expensive drug and should not (in my humble opinion) be prescibed to people who are obviously going to take the P*** and
try and get round it.

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Palliative Nurse

Answer 6

No, but it will make you wish it did........

Source(s):

experience

Answer 7

no, and it effects everyone differently.
some people will spew their guts and others will just feel nauseous