It is way to simplistic to correlate neurotoxicity with the aftereffects produced by the hangover. Alcohol causes brain damadge in the right dose but people don't often go around weeks after a bender complaining they feel neurotoxic effects.
Sure after awhile you may notice coganative deficies or serious depression but the neurotoxic effects can begin way earlier then those concerning symptoms. These can be hard to pinpoint especially when you are not thinking clearly.
Plenty of damage is done to our brain even when we think we feel mostly fine.
This post is over a year and a half old, but it points to an important issue I want to post about- "but people don't often go around weeks after a bender complaining they feel neurotoxic effects." EXACTLY THE POINT!
ALCOHOL IS NEUROTOXIC!!!
They should be complaining about neurotoxic effects! But it's a traditional, legal drug with corporate sponsorship. The relationship between hangover effects and neurotoxicity is downplayed and obfuscated. Not because neurotoxicity isn't happening. People
should be complaining about neurotoxic effects after a bender, they are just to stupid and ignorant to do so. BTW Note that a lot of the neurotoxic effects are from alcohol
withdrawals, not just directly ethanol alcohol itself. Which may lead one to ask
What's the difference between a hangover and alcohol withdrawals?- Science doesn't really understand alcohol hangovers, where because it's ordinary everyday language, we often include effects like dehydration, etc., into the whole experience, confusing understanding of the term.
Why is my city/state/nation letting over half it's inhabitants poison themselves with neurotoxic levels of alcohol while I have to worry about fines, jail even prison and be forced into expensive rehabs for a couple of lines/milligrams of 4-CMC? Well, until our societies start functioning reasonably, I think it might be good to assume it might have something to do with "psychonauts" freely labelling their personal random side effects as "neurotoxicity", while the people going to to local pub refuse to call what they experience neurotoxicity. Get it? Maybe vendors should give out little social policy educational material(yeah right). I am so frustrated that people seem to deliberately misunderstand or ignore this; when you magnify bad side effects and minimize things like long-term antidepressant effects in discussion boards here, you are contributing to... Well, I'm not going to waste more energy ranting. Here's a big hint: "neurotoxicity" is more inexact, and less scientific, than most people seem to assume. For example: it's often used to describe effects that don't actually involve a neurotoxin
and yet also those connected very specifically to specific neurotoxins. Remember that.
I saw a vendor with a sale on 4-CMC, looked at this thread, and it has been mostly useless. Ironically the post I'm responding to misspells "brain damadge" and "coganative deficies". Good grief! I think I'll go drink a beer and mellow out.