Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Whether with black coffee or enforced abstinence, sobering up an intoxicated alcoholic is a slow process that usually takes anywhere from eight to 48 hours. Now a team of Lynn, Mass., emergency-room physicians has found a way to do the job faster. Drs. Louis Kunian, James Wasco and Lawrence Hulefeld of Lynn Hospital report in Emergency Medicine that intravenous infusions of fructose, a sugar found in fruit, can sober up a drunk with unusual speed. However the fructose works-the doctors speculate that it may inhibit alcohol's effects on the nervous system -the sugar is undoubtedly efficient...
Robbins pointed out that the legislature had also failed to include bars and restaurants in its legislation. Presently only packaged alcohol can be sold to 18-year-olds, he said...
Several witnesses testified at the hearing that marijuana has taken its place with cigarettes and alcohol as a recreational drug, and is no more dangerous than either tobacco or drinking. "Marijuana is not addictive and is not a stepping stone to the harder drugs," Grinspoon, author of Marijuana Reconsidered, said...
...combination can be catastrophic. Methaqualone and alcohol are synergistic: one multiplies the effects of the other. Taken together, they can depress the respiratory center and stop breathing; they may also slow the reflexes in the back of the throat, so that if a user vomits (which may happen after a large dose of methaqualone), he can choke...
...country's economy has been ill-planned. He also castigated his biggest constituency, Chile's workers, chiding the miners for "acting like a bunch of monopolistic bankers" in their wage demands, and criticized bureaucrats for failing to improve government efficiency. To curb the groggy effects of alcohol on the workers, Allende last week threatened to ration beer. No teetotaler himself, Allende said: "The housewives of Chile will erect a monument in my honor...