Alcohol is a hallucinogenic drug.
Alcohol-related psychosis is a secondary psychosis with predominant hallucinations occurring in many alcohol-related conditions, including acute intoxication, withdrawal, after a major decrease in alcohol consumption, and alcohol idiosyncratic intoxication. Alcohol is a neurotoxin that affects the brain in a complex manner through prolonged exposure and repeated withdrawal, resulting in significant morbidity and mortality. Alcohol-related psychosis is often an indication of chronic alcoholism; thus, it is associated with medical, neurological, and psychosocial complications.
This is in response to an ignorant commenter here.
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3 responses to “Alcohol Is A Hallucinogen”
Damn, I’d have taken my drinking more seriously if I knew that.
Another thing I wish I’d known in college.
Yeah- what TallDave said.
Though I have long known that WITHDRAWAL from alcohol is a serious hallucinogen. See “Delirium tremens”. Pink Elephants, anyone?
P.S…. Pink Elephants are a cocktail, nowadays. Not one I like – anything with even a vague possibility of getting an umbrella in it…ack.
Scotch. Neat. Thanks. Vodka if I’m in a Russian group, Irish whiskey is likewise fine, even if I’m a Scotch drinker.
But umbrellas? No, thanks. And that drink has WAY too many liqueurs. Ack.
And I’m legal – and so are those who want all those weird liqueurs in their drink.
(Simon, I suspect you can continue this rant better than I can.)
Yeah – pot’s a lot less harmful. Really (even if I’m allergic to it – it just gives me sneezing fits – not DTs and not cirrhosis of the liver.)