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Animal Research-A Chocolate flavored "Mouse Cocktail" now enables scientists to study chronic alcoholism and its effects in mice. Dr. Gerhard Freund, UF and VA Hospital Medical Researcher, has devised the method of getting alcohol into mice-hertofore a stumbling block in studies of chronic alcoholism because mice do not like to imbibe. Dr. Freund's mice not only drink alcohol, but have exhibited all the symptoms of alcoholism which are seen in humans. The studies suggest that alcohol impairs brain function and the impairment persists after alcohol is no longer consumed. This mouse takes a nip from the feeder as Dr. Freund observes the effects |