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From: lanin@csd2.UUCP (Vladimir Lanin)
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Subject: Re: Urinalysis...Lie Detectors...all th ( really drug safety )
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Date: Mon, 12-May-86 15:57:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 12 15:57:00 1986
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>It's possible that alcoholics
>are alcoholics because their body turns alcohol
>(a non-addictive drug in itself)into morphine (an addictive drug).

While I have no comment on the rest of the article (or entire issue),
I would like to get more information or references on this amazing
phenomenon of turning ethyl alcohol (a very, very simple organic molecule)
into morphine.
It has been a while since Organic Chem 1, but I think morphine has
at least one ring with several side groups and contains nitrogen.
Perhaps you meant that endomorphins are released under the influence
of alcohol?
In either case, I'd like to know more about it.

Vladimir Lanin
lanin@nyu-csd2.arpa
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