http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_and_the_Picaros
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_and_the_Picaros
Life is stranger than ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disulfiram
Disulfiram is absorbed slowly through the digestive tract
and eliminated slowly by the body the effects may last
for up to two weeks after the initial intake
An interesting podcast from NPR on its use in Russia:http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/russia-rx/killer-cur...
Good thing this didn't exist in the 20's.
you need to cure the causes not the effects.
He said all it did was give him intolerable diarrhea for a week and then he threw the rest of the tablets away. I would imagine most people would do the same thing with the oral medication if the effects were so drastic.
Clockwork Orange
Imagine if we gave gastric bypasses to fat people against their will. Horrible, right? We don't do that though, so we have few ethical issues with the procedure.
Anyone know (a) whether 23andme will pick up the natural genetic mutation mentioned, and (b) whether you can have varying degress of this condition? Just curious: 60% of the time, alcohol makes me feel terrible every time...
The first thing that popped into my mind was a Tintin story - where Captain Haddock finds he can no longer bear the taste of whiskey. The professor had given him something akin to this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_and_the_Picaros Life is stranger than ...