5 beers implicated in emergency room visits - bud, steel reserve, colt 45, bud ice& light

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/beers-implicated-in-emergency-room-visits/?_r=0



Nationwide, roughly a third of all visits to emergency rooms for injuries are alcohol related. Now a new study suggests that certain beverages may be more likely to be involved than others.

The study, carried out over the course of a year at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, found that five beer brands were consumed most often by people who ended up in the emergency room. They were Budweiser, Steel Reserve, Colt 45, Bud Ice and Bud Light.

Three of the brands are malt liquors, which typically contain more alcohol than regular beer. Four malt liquors accounted for nearly half of the beer consumption by emergency room patients, even though they account for less than 3 percent of beer consumption in the general population.

Three of the brands are malt liquors, which typically contain more alcohol than regular beer. Four malt liquors accounted for nearly half of the beer consumption by emergency room patients, even though they account for less than 3 percent of beer consumption in the general population.

Previous studies have found that alcohol frequently plays a role in emergency room admissions, especially those stemming from car accidents, falls, homicides and drownings, said the lead author of the study, David H. Jernigan of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The new study, published in the journal Substance Use and Misuse, is the first to look at whether certain brands or types of liquor are overrepresented.

[KG]

1. beer, it does a body good.

[zappaman]

2. I'm confused.

The headline says 5 beers, but I don't see even one...

[Brickbat]

8. THREAD OVER.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

9. You win the internet! NT

[Warpy]

18. Yeah, it's all carbonated cat piss

Most of the ER traffic here is lubricated by Bud Light followed by cheap vodka.

[Warren DeMontague]

19. Now playing on the main stage, "Cans Of Piss"

doing their hit number "I can't find my face"

Hello Cleveland!

[City Lights]

31. Haha, so true!

Give me Guinness or give me death!

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Since the government INSISTS that Marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol, that must mean

...what, half of Emergency room visits are related to marijuana overdoses, right?

And we must have at least 100 people a week dying from complications resulting from physical withdrawls from THC, Delerium Tremens, not to mention drowning in their own vomit or otherwise physically overdosing on cannabis to the point of brain damage or death.

I mean, pot's more dangerous than alcohol...



...right?

[RC]

17. Wadahell? What do facts have to do with this?

Absorb your talking points and move along. geees... Wada trouble maker or or someptin.

[Fawke Em]

4. Uh... I'm gonna say that it's because those are cheap

and widely sold in convenience stores.

Higher=brow brands are more expensive and usually only sold at supermarkets and specialty shops.

Ergo, more people have access to them, raising the beer-related accidents to include these brands.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

11. The two convenience stores in my neighborhood

carry all the usual suspects as far as cheap beers go, but they also carry Fat Tire, Sam Adams, Alpine Springs, Swamp Ape, Widmire Bros, Red Hook, et al...

And I live in a pretty poor area (Northwest Palm Bay, FL).

[Fawke Em]

14. Still - those other beers are more expensive

that at least four of the five listed.

I've never heard of Steel Reserve, so I don't know its price point.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

15. Dirt cheap. And VERY high in alcohol. NT

[Comrade Grumpy]

22. Steel Reserve--biggest bang for your beer buck. Tastes like shit, though.

But not too bad if you stick it in the freezer for awhile. By the time your 40 warms up enough to taste, you don't care anymore.

[warrant46]

29. Those are Foatys not 40s

Here are 2 of the biggest brain killers

The Crooked I

Today, St. Ides (also known as The Crooked I) is a potent brand of malt liquor that is manufactured by the Pabst Brewing Company. The beverage contains 8.2% alcohol by volume



Schlitz Bull Ice





9% High Gravity Malt

and then There's Paris Hilton and Snoop dog

[cloudbase]

26. Quantity has a quality all of its own. n/t

[surrealAmerican]

33. That is the most likely explanation.

People looking to drink "to excess" look for the cheapest stuff they can get.

[MADem]

5. When you say BUD....you've said it all! nt

[FrodosPet]

12. When you say BUD....you've said

[JVS]

6. I've enjoyed plenty of Steel Reserve and never had an emergency room visit because of it.

Also, it seems odd to me they point out that Steel Reserve, Bud Ice, and Colt 45 are stronger than the average beer but don't point out that Bud Light is weaker than the average beer.

[devils chaplain]

7. If someone served me that crap, I'd get angrily violent too! n/t

[Bay Boy]

10. Craft beers have higher

alcohol than regular beer. But they would never make this list as an individual brand because of their smaller sales per brand.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

13. That's not true...

Some craft beers have relatively low alcohol content compared to malt liquors like Steel Reserve and Colt 45. I mostly drink craft beers, and I don't have a very high tolerance. I mostly buy brews with a 4.6-5.5 ABV. I also brew my own beer, and try to keep the ABV down there as well.

[Bay Boy]

30. It must just be the ones that I buy...

...I drink two of them and they kick my butt.

[Jenoch]

16. I bought a 12-pack of Steel Reserve a couple of years ago.

There are still 10 cans left. I remember trying the first can, not particularly enjoying it, and had another one later to see if I changed my mind. I didn't change my mind. As I recall, it had a 'alcohol' flavor to it rather than a 'beer' flavor. I need to find some 21 year old to give it to. I can think of a couple nephews who would not turn it down.

[forthemiddle]

34. boil some brats in it

Or use it for cooking. Whenever we buy beer (or brew a not so great product) we save it for our cooking needs.
In fact, the tastiest, juiciest boneless, skinless chicken breast you will ever eat is marinated in beer for a minimum of one hour before grilling it.
We use craft beers only, but I bet the Steel Reserve would work just fine.

[PD Turk]

20. Hmm

I think those are the same ones responsible for most delivery room visits too

[JaneyVee]

21. Four Loko must be proud.

[Niceguy1]

23. well beer is a solution...

Technically

[longship]

24. "Hold my beer and watch this!"

I wonder if they polled how many said this just before the call was made to 911?

Then, there's the Tequila vs. Vodka vs. Whiskey dispute.

And how many of the beers drinkers were drinking Olde Frothingslosh. Without that data I have to reject the whole study.

[flvegan]

25. Beer needs to be banned. Sure the, "beerhumpers" in their Beergeon will disagree.

At the very least, we need stricter beer laws. Ban high capacity packaging, and any way of delivery that can be performed with simply pulling a lever, like a tap. Ban them, ban them all!

*snicker*

[backscatter712]

27. Well, they need to drink real beer instead of horse piss...

Maybe if they switched from Bud to 90 Shilling they'd have better luck.

[WilliamPitt]

28. Jackasses with poor taste in beer implicated in emergency room visits.

Headline fix.

I use that shit to water my plants.

[Fumesucker]

32. That's what pretty much everyone does with beer

But most of them run it through their kidneys first.