Alcohol increasing survival chances?

Have you ever wondered why it is the drunk driver that seems to survive the accident whereas his sober passengers aren't usually as fortunate?

It turns out, according to a study conducted by Lee Friedman at UIC, that alcohol has some sort of a protective effect on its users. He explains, "The more alcohol you have in your system, the more protective the effect." He studied 190,612 patients at trauma centers in Illinois in which he explains, "At the higher levels of blood alcohol concentration, there was a reduction of almost 50 percent in hospital mortality rates." He continues to say, "This protective benefit persists even after taking into account injury severity and other factors known to be strongly associated with mortality following an injury." However, Friedman explains that he is not trying to encourage drinking since there is an increased risk of being injured in the first place by consuming alcohol. He states that alcohol somehow tunes down the neurological "panic buttons" that are pressed when one gets an injury, since these panic buttons are what actually causes death.

Now let's stop and think for a second. Alcohol has some sort of protective effect that increases our chance of survival after injury (with the exception of burns). So, I was thinking that there must be some way we can utilize this protective effect of alcohol in drugs, to a point where ambulances have this drug and administer it to patients immediately, thereby increasing there chance of surviving in the hospital. Of course, before doing this, we must learn more about this mysterious nature of alcohol. Clearly, there is a amazing potential that can be unleashed when we learn about this nature.