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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday October 26 2019, @02:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the drunk-on-pretzels dept.

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Man kept getting drunk without drinking. Docs found brewer's yeast in his guts

After years of inexplicably getting drunk without drinking alcohol, having mood swings and bouts of aggression, landing a DWI charge on the way to work one morning, and suffering a head injury in a drunken fall, an otherwise healthy 46-year-old North Carolina man finally got confirmation of having alcohol-fermenting yeasts overrunning his innards, getting him sloshed any time he ate carbohydrate-laden meals.

Through the years, medical professionals and police officers refused to believe he hadn't been drinking. They assumed the man was lying to hide an alcohol problem. Meanwhile, he went to an untold number of psychiatrists, internists, neurologists, and gastroenterologists searching for answers.

Those answers only came after he sought help from a support group online and then contacted a group of researchers at Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island, New York.

By then, it was September of 2017—more than seven years after his saga began. The New York researchers finally confirmed that he had a rarely diagnosed condition called "auto-brewery syndrome."


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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Saturday October 26 2019, @04:28PM (5 children)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Saturday October 26 2019, @04:28PM (#912116) Journal

    Time for some whataboutism. What about the intellectual laziness of the cops? Wouldn't believe he wasn't an alcoholic, and dismissed him as a liar.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @05:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @05:06PM (#912126)

    "the intellectual laziness of the cops"

    Yeah.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @06:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @06:58PM (#912156)

    What about the intellectual laziness of the cops? Wouldn't believe he wasn't an alcoholic, and dismissed him as a liar.

    Medical mysteries are not the main subject matter of the justice system. Cops have tools to measure if blood alcohol is high - yes? then guilty of being intoxicated. They didn't say of "guilty of drinking" - that's a not a crime at all. The crime is driving under influence. How you get that influence is not their problem. You may as well inject alcohol into your veins for all they care.

    So this whataboutism is not really applicable here. What this dude can do is go to court to get his record expunged on medical grounds, but that's about it.

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday October 26 2019, @09:44PM (1 child)

    by Bot (3902) on Saturday October 26 2019, @09:44PM (#912199) Journal

    You have quite an incentive to lie to the police. Not so with your doctor.

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    • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Sunday October 27 2019, @06:44PM

      by bzipitidoo (4388) on Sunday October 27 2019, @06:44PM (#912493) Journal

      Not really. Giving false statements is often much worse than saying nothing. If matters reach the point that a trial may be held, pleading guilty usually leads to lighter sentences than pleading not guilty and being found out as both guilty and a liar.

      But then, saying almost nothing can be one of the best things to do. Only things to say are the formula questions, asking if you are being charged, and if so, with what, and if not, asking if you are free to go.

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday October 27 2019, @06:21AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday October 27 2019, @06:21AM (#912321) Journal

    Implicit assumption: cops do have intelligence (only it is the lazy kind).
    Ummm... what?

    (grin)

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