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Pain, Volume 32, Issue 2, February 1988, Pages 159-163 wrote:Orally administered ethyl alcohol (100%), mixed in a 1:1 ratio with tonic water at a dose of 2 mg/kg (the equivalent of two cocktails) produced tolerance to experimentally induced pain comparable to 0.17 mg/kg s.q. morphine (11.6 mg in a 70 kg person). Pain threshold i.e., the initial awareness of pain, was not modified by either morphine or alcohol. The experiment was run using 18 paid subjects in an experimenter-blinded design. Both a pharmacologically active placebo (atropine) as well as a totally inactive placebo (saline) were employed. Pain induction occurred via mechanical pressure on the Achilles tendon utilizing a device previously standardized in the clinical screening of over 100,000 patients for pain awareness.
These results suggest that alcohol, in non-intoxicating quantities, may be an effective adjunct to other analgesic modalities.
NZcaver wrote:Yeah, I'm sure hoarding alcohol is a high priority for the Japanese and other folks recently disrupted by natural disasters around the globe...
Or perhaps it might be more constructive to start with with the basic food, water, shelter, communication/information, transportation, and some actual medical supplies? Coincidentally, some of the items Andrew mentioned in his initial post. Or am I just being too cynical?
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