intoxication

Alcohol is a drug that affects the central nervous system. It belongs in a class with the barbiturates, minor tranquilizers, and general anesthetics, and it is commonly classified as a

…humans, in response to infection, intoxication, or vaccination. Animal and human antiserums can be used in other individuals to confer immunity to a specific disease or to treat bites or stings of venomous animals. Antiserums from animals are most often used, but human antiserums have proved valuable for use in…

…result in a form of intoxication with the similar symptoms of impaired mental and psychomotor skills. Taken together, barbiturates and alcohol, potentiate each other; that is, the effects of the two drugs taken together is greater than the sum of their effects when taken separately.

Intoxication is usually not treated as mental incapacity. Soviet law was especially harsh; it held that the mental-disease defense was not applicable to persons who committed a crime while drunk and that drunkenness might even be an aggravating circumstance. American law is similar. In German…

…violence and aggressiveness, including alcohol intoxication, the use of some drugs (e.g., crack cocaine but not marijuana), diet, and the ingestion of toxic substances. Drinking alcohol has tended to increase criminality temporarily, and the long-term effects of ingesting lead (such as is found in lead-based paint) have generally been associated…