Drinking Can Help In a Crash

Dont shoot the messenger!  I just report the facts, tho factually when i was alot younger (18-20's) my friends used to prefer driving with me when i was drunk - because i paid more attention to what i was doing!  i can definitely agree that "drunk" driving is dangerous and deadly, but i disagree with anything close to the current levels of .08%
so here's the story:

DRINKING CAN HELP IN CRASH

December 19, 2006 -- WASHINGTON - Alcohol is to blame in many accidents that cause major head injuries - but it also might help people survive after they get hurt, researchers said yesterday.

Researchers examined data on 1,158 patients treated at a Toronto hospital for severe brain injury due to blunt trauma from 1988 and 2003.

Those with blood-alcohol levels of up to 0.23 percent, nearly three times the common legal limit, were found to be 24 percent likelier to survive than those with no alcohol

But patients with even higher alcohol levels were 73 percent likelier to die than those with none, University of Toronto Dr. Homer Tien wrote in The Archives of Surgery.
LINK to story -
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12192006/news/worldnews/drinking_can_help_in_crash_worldnews_.htm