[LurkedLongEnough]

It's never the drunk's fault, it's the way the alcohol affects the brain.

I just can't figure out how a topic like this could pre-occupy so many bright minds.

[Arkinsaw]

David Geffen School of Medicine

Ummmm, okay.

[ScottFromSpokane]

I don't understand resistance to increasing the sum total of human knowledge. Some people just want to know how things work. And thank God for those people.

[marty60]

$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[prion]

It's never the drunk's fault, it's the way the alcohol affects the brain. I just can't figure out how a topic like this could pre-occupy so many bright minds.

Yeah. Stupid brain chemistry!

[Mercat]

It's never the drunk's fault, it's the way the alcohol affects the brain. I just can't figure out how a topic like this could pre-occupy so many bright minds.

Soooooo, do we just shoot the alcoholic? Leave him/her for dead?

[Pilsner]

Alcohol interferes with how brain cells communicate with one another, coordination, grogginess, impaired memory and loss of inhibitions associated with drunkenness.

Sez who? Why I'm imbibing right now and itt dosnt' effgt my abbeluty to tipe^ a t t awll *,

[djf]

Here's the solution for alcohol abuse:



Dalwhinnie, the best scotch in the world.

[petro45acp]

"I just can't figure out how a topic like this could pre-occupy so many bright minds."

I do. Getting older, I find I enjoy the taste of fine spirits and good beer more but really dislike the mind numbing effect. If they could make a scotch that tasted like Laphroaig or Talisker, or a beer like any number of good beers, without the effect of alchohol, I'd have a drink more often. The "no buzz" beers taste terrible.

Just a thought.

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[uncbob]

This is all BS

Alcohol ain't a drug just ask all the beer drinking ANTI POT types on this site

They don't use drugs

[lunarbicep]

ping

[Ichneumon]

It's never the drunk's fault, it's the way the alcohol affects the brain.

That's not what the article says. Careful, your prejudices are showing.

I just can't figure out how a topic like this could pre-occupy so many bright minds.

Because increased knowledge is valuable in countless ways.

[Army Air Corps]

So what. Fraternities have been researching this for decades...

[Mr Ramsbotham]

They need to do some experimentation on me. I'm naturally a type B personality, and very distractable; can't walk and chew gum at the same time. Yet when I drink I become focused (even though I suffer the usual lack of coordination).

[JennysCool]

Typical UCLA fixation.

[Smartaleck]

"I just can't figure out how a topic like this could pre-occupy so many bright minds."

Perhaps you've answered your own question?

[fullchroma]

This is great! Maybe now someone will devise a calorie-free means of achieving the same effects. 'Scuse me. Gotta go get another lite beer...

[The Other Harry]

> It's never the drunk's fault, it's the way the alcohol affects the brain.

> I just can't figure out how a topic like this could pre-occupy so many bright minds.

As someone who has long struggled with a drinking problem, let me assure you that the fight can be difficult.

It's hard to explain. I can go months without drinking, and then something will happen which will set me off. It can be something tiny and seemingly inconsequential, like a light bulb burning out. It usually isn't the big things.

I know that seems crazy. That's because it IS crazy.

[maine-iac7]

I just can't figure out how a topic like this could pre-occupy so many bright minds.

too many experiments?

[NorCalRepub]

no kidding.....I find the more I drink, the more I"m the most important, handsome, clever and funniest man in the room.......isn't that a good thing?????

[DesertWalker]

Actually, a famous example of this was Ulysses S. Grant. He got the reputation of a frequent drunk while he was a general, on duty. Later on, the officers who were with him while drinking remembered that he only ever took one or two shots of whiskey. One sip and he would begin slurring his speech and loose his balance. He was definitely drunk, but it took almost no booze to get him plastered.