Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a few days, the husband reported in surprise that he had experienced a dramatic loss of desire for alcohol. Fascinated by the unexpected side effect, Dr. Taylor asked about the reactions of 53 other patients who drank. Most reported similar results. Not only did desire for alcohol decrease, but metronidazole also lowered alcoholic tolerance, sometimes caused outright aversion and induced a feeling of well-being for those cutting down or going on the wagon altogether...
...part of anesthesiologists' work, as the aged population increases and, with it, the incidence of cancer. Dr. Bonica reported that he is concentrating on the relief of intractable pain from arthritis and neuralgia as well as cancer. The approach is usually by "permanently anesthetizing" nerves with injections of alcohol or phenol...
With all this in mind it is possible to understand what Leary means when he says that psychedelics are not addictive and therefore less dangerous than alcohol, television, and higher education, all of which trap their true believers for a lifetime. Alcoholics, tube-boobs, and academicians do the same things all their lives, lumbering along, taking their game seriously. They have no way out of their chessboard of familiar concepts; they are addicted to it and addicts are always disillusioned, according to Leary. What is paradoxical, however--and Leary admits it--is that the human nervous system does...
...most thorough study yet made of the drug, with state prison inmates who volunteered for tedious and sometimes painful tests, Dr. Kligman offers some negative findings. DMSO, he says, provides practically no relief for itching or superficial pain. As a germ killer, it is weak "and far inferior to alcohol." It does nothing to promote the healing of clean, simple burns, and it worsened one of ten ultraviolet burns. DMSO also failed to tranquilize any of 20 men in a six-month test. Nevertheless, it has some remarkably beneficial properties...
People who have had whiplash accidents sometimes complain of blinding headaches, partial paralysis, dizziness, deafness, blindness-and inability to tolerate alcohol. But because it has been difficult or impossible in most cases to detect physical damage to the brain, lawyers for insurance companies-as well as some doctors-have argued that such symptoms are psychologically induced by the "blow from behind," and are more imaginary than real. Experiments like Dr. Ommaya's go far to confirm the possibility of severe and lasting, though invisible, damage...