Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party progressed people finally became drunk, and their clothes began to look rumpled. People laughed easier and danced more. Men and women began having long conversations, unlike the brief exchanges that had characterized the beginning of the party. The alcohol broke down some of the tension of the party's start, some of the pressure to know many people and talk to many people. Circulation slowed...
Neurobiologists Robert Myers and Christine Melchoir injected directly into the brains of laboratory rats a compound called tetrahydropapaveroline (THP), which is present in opium poppies and is used by the plant to manufacture morphine. Given a choice of drinking water or ethyl alcohol during the early stages of the experiment, the rats, which normally shun alcohol, always opted for the water. But, Myers and Melchoir write in Science, after only three days of THP treatment the teetotaling rats began switching to the sauce. Indeed, after a while the rodents became so addicted that they exhibited all the symptoms of alcoholism...
These findings, says Myers, contradict a recent Rand Corp. study (TIME, June 21) that suggested some alcoholics could safely return to moderate drinking. He points out that even after nine months of abstention the rats preferred alcohol over water. This strongly bolsters his suspicion that alcoholism is due not to social conditioning-as the Rand study implied-but to lasting chemical changes in the brain. Still, Myers, who has also discovered a chemical that reduces alcohol consumption in addicted animals, holds out hope. If alcoholism is really rooted in brain chemistry, a drug treatment may be devised to help...
Among other things, the opposition had demanded that the government act to reinforce Pakistan's character as an Islamic state. Last week Bhutto announced that he would introduce legislation to ban alcohol, gambling and nightclubs. He also offered to hold new elections for provincial assemblies in the Punjab, Sind, Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier. If the National Alliance got a majority of votes in the polling, Bhutto promised, he would then dissolve the National Assembly and order a new general election...
Elosegi lost 25 of his 100 or so men during the bombardment. He took pictures the next day in the smoke and the rubble, 48 hours before the Nationalists occupied the town. In 1970 he sneaked a mineral-water bottle filled with pure alcohol into the San Sebastian fronton, where Franco was attending an international jai alai tournament. Elosegi doused himself with alcohol, set it afire, and jumped into the arena from the second balcony, shouting, "Cora Euzkadi Askatuta!" (long live the free Basque country) and "Guernica, Guernica...