Alcoholism: Alcoholism Vaccine Makes Alcohol Intolerable to Drinkers
Alcoholism Vaccine Makes Alcohol Intolerable To Drinkers
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Hugh Pickens writes "Ariel Schwartz reports that researchers are working on an alcoholism vaccine that makes alcohol intolerable to anyone who drinks it. The vaccine builds on what happens naturally in certain people — about 20% of the Japanese, Chinese, and Korean population — with an alcohol intolerance mutation. Normally, the liver breaks down alcohol into an enzyme that's transformed into …
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Ernest Hemingway's granddaughter recalls family history of alcoholism and suicide
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London, Feb 15 (ANI): Ernest Hemingway may be regarded as one of the seminal writers of the 20th century, but his legend also lives on through his image as an inveterate drinker.
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Friends, family remember DUI driver's struggles to battle alcoholism
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Until his DUI death in a Forestville crash last week, Mark Church had been slowly winning a battle against alcohol-fueled decisions that brought arrests but didn't stop his dream of living sober.
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Hofmann’s Potion – Albert Hofmann LSD Documentary
By the mid-1950s, LSD-research was being published in medical and academic journals all over the world. It showed potential benefits in the treatment of alcoholism, drug addiction, and other mental illnesses. This film explores those potential benefits, and the researchers who explored them. QUOTES: Myron Stolaroff: In a good LSD experience you resolve your inner conflicts, and the loads and the barriers that have developed. You begin to reach down into the depth of your own being. You see more and more levels of being. More and more levels of understanding. Often we like to blame our feelings on other people. And what they are doing to us. But if I feel that it’s my feeling and I’ve produced it, then I’m the only one who can resolve it. And fortunately, these substances allow you see and recognize this. And resolve it. Ram Dass: I wasn’t born as Richard Albert. I was just born as a human being. And then I learned this whole business of who I am, and whether I’m good or bad, or achieving or not. All that’s learned along the way. You see all those learned things separate. You become is a point of awareness. That’s all that is left. I remember the first time this happened to me, as professor went, and middle class boy went, and pilot went, and all of my games were going off into the distance. I got this terrible panic, because, indeed, I was going to cease to exist. And I got the panic, which is the panic that precedes psychological death. Because indeed Richard Albert was …
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