Re: Early tipple breeds 'alcoholism'

Ariel <ariella@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mandy wrote:

Evil_Nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
[snip]

Did you ever take cough medicine as a kid? Chances are that had quite
a nip of alcohol in it.

Evil Nigel


Really? I'm surprised they got away with it!

Got away with it? Ethanol is in a lot of medicines.

Because some people don't want to consume even the small amounts of
ethanol you get in medicine for `I don't drink alcohol' reasons, there
are alternative preparations.

But I think I'd rather have the ethanol containing versions - not that
I've actually looked up anything about the ingredients I've seen in the
non-ethanol containing versions, but: ethanol is a normal product of
normal human metabolism. Your body is built to cope with it in small
quantities.

I'm not at all convinced that *that* strange-sounding stuff turns up in
your body under normal circumstances...

I'll stick with the ethanol and sugar containing forms, any time. Teeth
can be cleaned.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge took laudanum for illness and then became
addited to it. Mind you that was some 200 years ago and they got away
with a lot in those days...

Got away with? What does that mean, in this context?

Laudanum was the standard painkiller back then - opium dissolved in
alcohol. Used by all, including given to children. It worked and opium
at least isn't toxic except in very large doses (alcohol's a different
matter).

Yes, lots of people got addicted to it. `Autobiography of an English
opium eater', first edition (the second edition is much longer and
waffles on appallingly) is worth a read.

No drugs were illegal in the UK (or USA) AFAIK until the 20th century,
and the invention of machinery to harvest hemp - as soon as that
happened, the cotten and oil barons in the USA lobbied the US parliament
and got hemp made illegal, because now it was possible to harvest and
process it with machinery, it would have provided competition for both
cotton /and/ mineral oil.

Another name for hemp is cannabis. It was the first drug to be made
illegal AFAIK - purely for commercial reasons and nothing to do with
health or anything like that.

[snip]

Rowland.

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