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- From: verhaar@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Henk Verhaar)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,sci.chem,sci.med,alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: how one becomes drunk
- Keywords: lemur
- Message-ID: <3579@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 19:37:07 GMT
- References: <1993Jan9.185837.14435@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <gHw5wB2w165w@cerianthus.pinetree.org>
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- In <gHw5wB2w165w@cerianthus.pinetree.org> cowan@cerianthus.pinetree.org (Darin Cowan) writes:
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- >I can't say for the others, but you can only get dead after consumption of
- >(a lot of) isopropanol. You cannot get drunk on it.
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- Oh yes you can. At least when you define 'drunk' as a state of altered
- conciousness close to (physiological) narcosis. From a toxicological point of
- view all aliphatic alcohols are narcotics (on a short term basis; chronic
- toxicity is an entirely different matter). Ethanol just 'happens' to be rather
- well suited for bio'degradation' - detoxification. It has, however, a lower
- LD50 than e.g. Sodium Chloride (cooking salt, as you all will know).
-
- Henk--
- Henk Verhaar <verhaar@cc.ruu.nl>
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- Research Institute of Toxicology - University of Utrecht
- Dept of Environmental Toxicology
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- Where we find out just how much junk you can bear and still be (re)productive!
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