Drugs Testing for Benefits

[Phanerothyme]

sorry, partridge/brasseye quote

Damn, I should have known that.

 

 

Anyway, back to alcohol:

Site search for alcohol

British National Formulary

 

Results 1 - 5 of 337 documents matching alcohol, sorted with best match first. Select any link to see the full document.

 

Alcohol

Emergency treatment of poisoning > Specific drugs > Alcohol

 

Alcohol

4 Central nervous system > 4.1 Hypnotics and anxiolytics > 4.1.1 Hypnotics > Alcohol

 

4.10.1 Alcohol dependence

4 Central nervous system > 4.10 Drugs used in substance dependence > 4.10.1 Alcohol dependence

 

9.6.2 Vitamin B group

9 Nutrition and blood > 9.6 Vitamins > 9.6.2 Vitamin B group

ALCOHOL

 

13 Skin > 13.11 Skin cleansers, antiseptics, and desloughing agents > 13.11.1 Alcohols and saline > ALCOHOL

 

The British National Formulary (guide to available drugs) lists it as a skin cleanser. And a drug.

 

When I want to know the meaning of synecdoche I go to to a dictionary, because it's a word. When I want to know the effects of a substance, I go to the BNF. It's the dictionary for drugs.

 

It's all about choosing the right reference book for the job, rather than relying on a dictionary for everything.

 

Maybe basssman, you should pick up a copy, you may learn something.

 

The oxford dictionary states nothing about alcohol being a drug or related to a drug.

They're wrong then.

Only by omission, and they're linguists not pharmacists.

[MonkeyRocks]

This topic which is entitled Drugs Testing for Benefits is nothing to do with your post, please stick to topic.

 

Some people stray "off topic" all the time and then when their "opinions" are rubbished, use the old "stay on topic" line. If the topic was stuck to too rigidly then we'd have a thread full of "yes" and "no" and not much else. On the subject of paying taxes to "substance abusers" then the very system of paying tax means we don't get much of a say either way. For instance there are certain people who I wouldn't want my tax money going to help if they were dying a slow and painful death (no names), but we have the NHS so that choice is not mine unfortunately. Thankfully it's not yours either

[MonkeyRocks]

You seem to know an awful lot about illegal drugs.

 

So should you if you are going to have such strong opinions otherwise you sort of don't have a leg to stand on as you are passionate about something you know next to nothing about.