The Nation - News from Nov. 28, 1986

Researchers are testing a drug in animals that quickly reverses or prevents the intoxicating effects of alcohol, a compound they say could be used to treat chronic alcoholics or to sober up drunks. The drug apparently blocks access to the brain cell receptor that ethanol--the alcohol in liquor--normally acts upon and prevents or reverses certain symptoms of drunkenness, scientists from the National Institute of Mental Health reported. The findings were to be published today in the journal Science.