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From: dms@ihlpg.UUCP (Spang)
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Subject: Re: Urinalysis...Lie Detectors...all th ( really drug safety )
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Date: Wed, 14-May-86 08:26:21 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 14 08:26:21 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).
> 
Did I post this?

> 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
> ihnp4!cmcl2!csd2!lanin




OKAY OKAY!
This is what happens when you listen to what your Mother tells you.

Anyway to all of you who are wondering-
Counselors at two different Alcohol treatment centers that my mother
had my then teenaged brother and sister in told her this ridiculous
story about morphine. After all the heat I got about this I phoned her
and asked her the deal. She know thinks the original explanation *may*
have been about endomorhpins, which is at least plausible. I don't wish
to give her as a possible source of info. I remember hearing that one
of the main reasons some drugs (or activities ie running) are addicting
is because they cause the release of endomorphins that results in either
an decreasing abilitity of the body producing its own, therefor the
withdrawal symptoms of pain etc., or an higher and higher level
of endomorphins to generate a *good* feeling.

ANYWAY
Please forget the original posting, it was inthe heat of the moment
after reading that garbage  about alcohol being non-addictive and knowing the
pain my two youngers went through I lost all control of my keyboard.

Respectfully,
Debra Spang
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