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Even though the subjects were aware of the sensations and the physical incoordination produced by the Salvia infusion, they claimed there minds seemed to be in a state of acute awareness. The experience was not like intoxication from alcoholic beverages. 

If we refer to alcohol-induced intoxication, the existence of a threshold dose seems obvious. After all, every person can imbibe some amount of an alcoholic beverage without feeling its effects. And we all recognize the point at which the threshold dose is passed. Certainly, individuals vary in their tolerance for alcohol - the size of the threshold dose varies from person-to-person — but there is clearly a no-effect , or subthreshold, dose range. 

Despite the connection with weapons of mass destruction, the most common neurotoxin in society is ethanol, found in alcoholic beverages. Neurons convey signals by manipulating ion concentrations, and neurotoxins reduce their ability to do so. Alcohol does this by essentially overloading the entire cell and hindering its abihty to function. Many of the characteristics of alcohol intoxication, such as slurred speech and erratic motion, are the result of improper function of neurons in the brain. As the body metabolizes the alcohol and removes it from the blood, the neurotoxic effects wear off. With large overdoses of alcohol, however, the effects do not wear off, and death due to alcohol poisoning is a dramatic and tmfortunately too common manifestation of neurotoxins. 

Ethanol is a molecule you are probably familiar with it s the alcohol found in alcoholic beverages that makes you feel intoxicated, and humans have consumed it for hundreds of years. Additionally, it is useful as a solvent, an antiseptic, a sedative, and a component in perfumes, lacquers, cosmetics, aerosols, antifreeze, and mouthwash. Ethanol can be produced from a raw feedstock, like corn or grain, by fermenting it in the presence of microbes, which can readily digest sugars and produce ethanol as a byproduct. 

Alcohol contains calories. It is metabolized at a fixed rate in the liver and yields about 7 Calories (kcal) per gram. Therefore, the intake of alcoholic beverages must be accounted for when counting calories. When alcohol is consumed faster than can be metabolized, then the level of alcohol in the body tissues builds up and intoxication follows. Upon drinking, alcohol is rapidly absorbed from... 

Many people today believe that coffee helps them sober up after drinking too much alcohol. This belief, actually, is far from new, as it is at least as old as 17th-century Western Europe. At that time a book on beverages noted that coffee sobers you up instantaneously, or in any event sobers up those who are not fully intoxicated (Schivelbusch, 1992, p. 35). Coffee was regarded as an ideal beverage. In the 19th century the poet-historian Jules Michelet praised coffee because it heightens purity and lucidity (Schivelbusch, 1992, p. 35). 

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