disinfectants, and hand sanitizers; it also can be found in pharmaceuticals.24Similar to other toxic alcohol ingestion, clinical symptoms of isopropanol ingestion range from clinical intoxication to profound obtundation. Diagnosis of
(which was used as ingredient in disinfectants) (Lachenmeier et al., 2012;Ostapenko et al., 2011;Solodun et al., 2011). Both substances were prohibited in Russia, where a large number of intoxication cases associated with consumption of disinfectant agents as surrogate alcohol were reported (...
Important, but previously under-recognized astrocytic ALDH2 mediates behavioral effects associated with alcohol intoxication and impairment of balance and coordination skills.118 The altered pathways of alcohol metabolism in the liver of obese and diabetic patients are the result of impaired insulin ...
As you can imagine, any medication that works with the chemicals in our body is very important and serious. Because of this, it is common that when people take both alcohol and Zoloft, they can receive DUIs and public intoxication charges because of their susceptibility to heightenedeffects of...
While both alcohol abuse and alcoholism are included in the alcohol use disorder diagnosis and involve engaging in maladaptive behaviors in the use of alcohol, abuse of this substance does not include the person having withdrawal symptoms or needing more and more amounts to achieve intoxication (to...
this does not necessarily mean that alcohol is better for you. There have been many arguments where people suggest thatmarijuana shouldbe legal because alcohol is more deadly. On the other hand, there arealcoholicswho would tell a pothead that smoking weed is bad for you. Both substances are...
Crowds of young men, in various stages of intoxication, rush into the lighted parlous, leer at the hostess in the vain effort to offer their respects, call for liquor drink it, and stagger out, to repeat the scene at some other house…Strange as it may seem, it is no disgrace to get...
The article contributes to ongoing debates about the social role of alcohol based leisure practises but also stresses the decentring of intoxication apparent in many of these accounts and, further, indicates an increasing diversification of pub based leisure....
reflected by the fact that clinically relevant intoxication levels of alcohol are measured in millimolar concentrations, whereas most other drugs of abuse are measured in nanomolar concentrations. A consequence of the high concentrations in the body is that there are a large number of potential molecul...
An alcoholic blackout refers to a period of time during acute alcoholic intoxication that a person subsequently does not recall. It is a blank space in the continuum of a person's memory and objectivity, and there are no outward signs other than those of typical drunkenness. The blackouts may...