Intoxicacion alcohólica / Alcoholic poisoning

El alcohol aun en dosis pequeñas, se comporta invariablemete como un tóxico depresor del Sistema Nervioso Central.(au)

Assessment of public opinion on legislation to deter drunk driving.

Existing legislative measures on blood-alcohol control of drivers failed to show a substantial effect in reducing the incidence of crash injury and mortality. Recently, a government initiative to limit locations and operating time (service hours) of nighttime entertainment venues was introduced. A telephone interviewed-survey of 500 random-samples to assess public opinion on the initiative and other legislative measures was conducted in Bangkok. The results showed that 88 per cent of the respondents supported the idea of prohibiting alcohol sale to youngsters aged <21 years old and 91 per cent agreed to limit the operating time of pubs, bars and nightclubs to no later than 2 a.m. The majority asserted that laws against drink driving were seldom enforced. More than half of the respondents agreed with the ideas of restricting medical care benefit for injured drunk drivers, and of prosecuting the related alcohol-sellers. Eighteen per cent of male respondents had drunk alcohol and driven in the past one month. A telephone survey is an efficient tool for providing timely information for policy decisions. More stringent enforcement of laws against drunk drivers should be implemented in parallel with traffic safety programs and other social control initiatives.

A embriaguez e o transito: avaliacao da nova lei de transito no que se refere a abordagem da embriaguez / Alcohol intoxication and driving: evaluation of the new Brazilian road traffic law in relation to its approach of drunkenness

Os aspectos referentes a coibicao da direcao de veiculos motorizados sob efeito de alcool do novo Codigo Nacional de Transito podem, senso latu, ser consideradas como componentes de um programa de prevencao de morbidade e mortalidade decorrentes de acidentes automobilisticos...

Alcances y limitaciones de la homeopatía / Reaches and limitations of homeopathy

Se presenta un análisis de los alcances y limitaciones de la homeopatía referidos a las enfermedades agudas por transgresiones y las epidemias donde se identifica el genio epidémico; y a las enfermedades crónicas donde se estudia la intoxicación drogal crónica, las influencias nocivas como el tabaquismo y el alcohol, las enfermedades infectocontagiosas, parasitarias y el alcohol, las neoplasias, así como las indicacines de la cirugía con criterio homeopático, el tratamieto preventivo con homeopatía y el de los pacientes terminales