The two definitions would appear to contradict each other. It is blatantly obvious that ‘intoxicate’ is a derivative of ‘toxic’, which means poisonous. ‘Exhilaration’ is included as one of the alternatives to ‘intoxication’ in the thesaurus section. In fact, if alcohol really did do all the things claimed for it at the start of this chapter, then ‘exhilaration’ would be an accurate and rather apt name for it. Yet it is the same drug that I described at the beginning of the last chapter. An apt name for that drug would be
