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Shog9yesterday at 10:20 PM1 replyview on HN

I mean... Yeah. Alcohol is very well documented and even more widely used for exactly this purpose BECAUSE it works.

The side-effects are often terrible. This is also true for many widely-prescribed drugs, and has been even more true in the past. The folks I've known on MAOIs were pretty wrecked.


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cluckindanyesterday at 11:18 PM

”The folks I've known on MAOIs were pretty wrecked.”

And then one must consider that tobacco smoke and coffee both contain high levels of MAOIs.