Health

Alcohol is what gets you high, it triggers a release of endorphins. While the serotonin and dopamine pathways are also activated, that hit of endorphin is what keeps people drinking, trying to bring it back. I'm surprised he missed that one. I'm less surprised he doesn't understand how alcohol is metabolized, the pathway is long and torturous, causing hangover if more than one unit of alcohol per hour was drunk. He hasn't kept up with a lot of new research into fetal alcohol syndrome (he'd rather shout "thou shalt not!" at women) and either missed or was just plain wrong about so much of it that I think his approach stems from an education in health food nutrition rather than standard academia.

He is right that alcohol is a poison. As I said, all drugs are targeted poisons.