Alcohol-Induced Blackouts: Causes and Consequences

Alcohol-induced blackouts are caused by acute intoxication resulting from alcohol consumption. It’s a kind of amnesia that affects the memory of events that occurred while under the influence of alcohol. Under this syndrome, affected individuals may behave in certain characteristic ways. These can include driving long distances without being fully aware of it or having seemingly normal conversations at parties that they may later fail to remember. Affected subjects often wake up in strange places without remembering how they got there. Thus, some people under the influence of this syndrome are even capable of criminal acts such as murder (2). Types…