A number of forensic studies published during the last 50 years report that intoxication with alcohol influences speech in a way that is made manifest in certain features of the speech signal. However, most of these studies are based on data that are not publicly available nor of statistically sufficient size. Furthermore, in spite of the positive reports nobody ever successfully implemented a ...

Corresponding Author: Sokolik Elena Petrovna, post-graduate student of the department of pharmacology, Zaporozhye state medical university, Mayakovskiy str., 24a, 261, 69035, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, Patients with chronic alcohol intoxication have diffuse changes extended on all nervous system and local defeat (parenchymal disintegration, gliosis hems, haemorrhage). Research on new ways of pharma...

In Sweden sales of alcohol dropped 17% from 1976 to 1982. Similarly, comparison of data from 1979 and 1982 shows that the mortality from cirrhosis of the liver declined appreciably, by 28% in men and 29% in women. During 1979-82 mortality from pancreatitis also declined noticeably, by 30% in men and 36% in women. By contrast, no decrease occurred in mortality from alcoholic psychosis, alcoholis...

Acute loss of vision and alcoholic intoxication suggests the possibility of methanol poisoning. In this report we describe an alcoholic patient who complained of blindness after recovering from alcoholic pancreatitis and delirium tremens. Visual acuity was severely impaired and fundoscopy revealed florid bilateral cotton wool spots and a cherry red spot at the right macula. Such appearances hav...

AIMS Acute alcohol intoxication itself may act as a trigger for suicidal thoughts and attempts among individuals at risk and may influence the potential lethality of the suicide attempt. This study in alcohol-dependent patients compared the correlates of suicide attempts during a heavy drinking episode with those of suicide attempts during relative sobriety. METHODS In two outpatient and two ...

Alcoholism can be described as a disorder characterized by impulsive decision-making processes, wherein potential short-term appetitive outcomes of drinking (e.g., intoxication) are deemed more important than potential long-term aversive consequences of drinking (e.g., drunk-driving arrests). Separate but interrelated neurocognitive pathways to impulsive decision making exist - one reflected by...

ToMorrow We'll be Sober. It was not until a SubCommittee on Alcoholism was set up by the World Health Organisation in 1951, that the size of the problem throughout the world became apparent, even to the experts themselves. Hitherto the alcoholic had been hardly worthy of serious scientific study, being regarded by the medical profession as well as by lay people as the subject of moral weakness ...

to no closing hours, when the yearly convictions for drunkenness touched the 200,000 mark. All the same, it is bad enough. We have a population of well over 100.000 severe alcoholics, and since alcoholism involves the dependents, half a million people at least suffer from its repercussions. One would think that the State, the Profession and the Health Service would do all they could to help. In...