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Abstract: 

In 2003, Mnemosyne Press in Santa Barbara, CA, published an important Book. The book, The Alcohol Blackout: Walking, Talking, Unconscious, and Lethal, by Donald F. Sweeney, M.D., and Robert A. Liston, promises to answer questions regarding: •How to recognize that a blacked-out person is unconscious and has no idea what he or she is doing; •How to cope with a blacked-out person; •How to protect the blacked-out person and yourself from harm; •How to drink to prevent blackouts; And •Why blackouts are a huge, misunderstood, and unrecognized problem for society and the law. This article is a review of that book and addresses the main points relating to blackouts and their effects.

Keywords: positron emission tomography (PET); magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); electroencephalograms (EEGs);

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