If the alcohol poisoning is extreme the patient can go into a coma and eventually die. This article focuses on the health aspects of alcohol poisoning, rather than other dangers, such as getting into fights, losing possessions or having problems with the law.
The beauty-is-a-social construction is one of the foundational tenets of social constructivism whether you wish to acknowledge that fact or not. I was making the point that Dr. Albers' post did not recognize that both universal as well as culture-specific metrics are operative when defining beauty.
essence. n. 1. the characteristic or intrinsic feature of a thing, which determines its identity; fundamental nature. 2. the most distinctive element of a thing: the essence of a problem. 3. a perfect or complete form of something, esp a person who typifies an abstract quality: he was the essence of gentility. 4. (Philosophy) philosophy. a. the unchanging and unchangeable nature of something which is necessary to its being the thing it is; its necessary properties. Compare accident 4.