It depends on the meds.  but generally speaking it's not a very good idea,
especially if you're taking anti-depressants (alcohol is a depressant),
tranquilisers, anti-spasticity meds, or pain-killers.   Alcohol taken with
those kind of meds can be lethal.

Kat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Pink" <[log in to unmask]>
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To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: Injecting Alcohol or Just Plain Guzzling It :)


> Michael Jefferies,
>
> Sorry to hear about your "out-of-control" arm.
>
> To Everybody,
>
> I thought when you took medicine , you can't drink alcohol.
>
> Kathy Pink
>
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> >From: Michael Jeffries <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: "St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List"
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Injecting Alcohol or Just Plain Guzzling It :)
> >Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 08:19:07 EST
> >
> >I went to a party and got so drunk my arm was on rapid-fire mode.  I hit
5
> >people and put a dent in a wall.  There are some with CP that have no
need
> >for alcohol, and I'm one of them.  BTW what I had to drink was a
> >combination
> >of 10 different types of alcohol in a 20 ounce cup in one chug.  I had
> >three
> >of them.
> >
> >"Long ago and far away, We had a voice, you know that we had a say, We
> >won't
> >live for yesterday, Ready or not, we're gonna have our way"
> >
> >Twisted Sister  Wake Up (the sleeping giant)
> >http://www.deesnider.com/twisted/albums/lyrics/zwake.html
> >
> >Michael Jeffries
> >AIM and Yahoo! ID  MJeff25916
> >ICQ# 53522767
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