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From: suhre@trwrb.UUCP (Maurice E. Suhre)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Urinalysis...Lie Detectors...(alchohol is hallucinogenic?)
Message-ID: <1106@trwrb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-May-86 19:18:05 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 29 19:18:05 1986
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In article <918@mhuxt.UUCP> js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) writes:
>> Alchohol is hallucinagenic.  In other words, when under the influence
>> of alchohol, one sees, feels, or hears things that would not be seen,
>> heard, or felt if not under its influence.
>>
>    I've been under the influence of alchohol many times, and failed to
>notice this effect.  Does it only happen when you get many times as sloshed as
>any reasonable person would, or what?  Does it happen to you when you drink
>alchohol?
>
        There is such a thing as delerium tremens, DT's for short,
        and I may be misspelling.  I believe the DT's start when
        the use of alcohol is discontinued, i.e. when the alcohol
        abuser starts the "drying out" process.

        The movie "Lost Weekend", starring Ray Milland circa 1945,
        has a marvelous sequence where he "sees" a bat emerging from
        the wall after it ate a hole in the wall to emerge from.  (I'm
        glad my old English teacher didn't see that last sentence!)

        Any textbook on alcohol abuse will probably describe the DT's.
        I never had them, and have never hallucinated under the influence
        of alcohol (unless you call thinking that I could drink normally
        was a hallucination!).  For complete information, you need a
        medical practitioner.

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Maurice Suhre

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