It is common knowledge that alcohol disrupts the normal functioning of the nervous system and that it is the cause of numerous automobile accidents: alcohol accounts for between 40 and 45% of road fatalities, and the risk of provoking a fatal accident is multiplied by a factor of 4.4 for a blood alcohol concentration of 0.80 g/l and by a factor of 16.2 for a blood alcohol level of 1.50 g/l (15). The physiopathology of neuropsychiatric complications due to alcoholism is extremely complex, and experimental data are often contradictory. In general, the clinician has to make do with the current hypotheses. (A)
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