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Ralph S. Ryback, MD
Belmont, Mass

JAMA. 1970;213(9):1497-1498.

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To the Editor.—

A man has been drinking, commits a crime or is involved in an accident, and you are asked to examine him in his now sober state for a medicolegal opinion. Hutchinson et al¹ addressed themselves to some of the legal implications of alcohol-mind interaction in their study of the effects of alcohol on mental function. However, since the latter study, new information on the effects of alcohol on memory has become available which raises new questions of legal responsibility.

Alcohol and other depressant drugs have been used to produce state-dependent or "dissociated" learning in animals and man.^2,3 That is, learning obtained when a subject is under the effects of a drug can best be recalled when the subject is replaced in the same drug state and is poorly or not remembered in the nondrug state. The higher the dose of the drug, the greater the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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