Alcohol intoxicated patients are usually brought to Emergency Departments of hospitals for treatment and stabilization and to ensure that the symptoms are due to alcohol consumption alone. As such, blood alcohol concentrations are usually...
Read moreIt is often seen that what matters in a culture is expressed by the number of terms a language has for a word. For example, the Sami people who live in northern Russia and Scandinavia have 180 words related to snow and ice and 1,000 words for...
Read moreThe title of this blog is taken from the title of the brilliant review paper on the psychological and social effects of alcohol, cited in Wigmore on Alcohol as WOA60112, and is: STEELE, C.M., and R.A. JOSEPHS, “Alcohol Myopia: Its Prized and...
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In my last blog, I discussed the issue of hangovers. While simple enough to get, hangovers are a complex phenomenon. All alcoholic beverages consist of water, alcohol and varying concentrations and types of congeners. Congeners are chemicals...
Read more“Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink” (Isaiah 5:11) The alcohol hangover has been known since Biblical times. The correct scientific term for hangover is “veisalgia”, which comes from the Norwegian...
Read moreFollowing on from my previous blog about alcohol induced blackouts, lets review a case report by D. Wells (WOA61707) as it illustrates the importance of blackouts in criminal cases. A 27 year old woman (weighing 110 pounds) who was a rare, social...
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