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Bethlehem man in Lower Macungie accused of dealing cocaine

Posted by admin in Drug & Alcohol Laws on August 6, 2010

Bethlehem man in Lower Macungie accused of dealing cocaine
A Bethlehem man pulled over in Lower Macungie Township for a car equipment violation had an ounce of cocaine with him, police said.
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Victory: President Obama Signs Law to Reduce Sentencing Disparities
On Tuesday, August 3, President Obama signed into law a bill to reduce the vast disparity between crack cocaine and powder cocaine sentencing. For years, eliminating this disparity has been a priority for the NAACP, as the gap unfairly hurts communities of color.
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Obama Signs Bill Reducing Cocaine Sentence Gap
President Signs Into Law Bill Reducing Disparity Between Mandatory Sentences For Powder Vs. Crack Cocaine
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Why can’t alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes be injected into yourself to lower your tolerance to alcohol?

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on June 26, 2010

I read that alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes are what help you process alcohol and after years of drinking you develop a deficiency in these enzymes, therefore making your tolerance higher (you need to drink more to get the same “drunk” feeling).

My question is: Why can’t we just medically raise our levels of these enzymes back up to where they used to be, or even higher, so that we get drunk faster and therefore drink less?

Likewise, why isn’t there a treatment for alcoholism that tries to balance this enzyme to a “normal” level in order to more normalize someone’s drinking habits?
to answer the first reply, acetaldehyde dehydrogenase will detoxify acetaldehyde to acetic acid. Is that still as fatal?

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