Psychiatrists Release Report on Alcoholics

Four psychiatrists at the Medical School reported yesterday the completion of a research project describing a new class of alcoholic. These "superalcoholics" drink poisonous beverages because they have found ordinary intoxicants too tame.

The report, which appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, included a description of nine men who have taken to such poisons as rubbing alcohol, witch hazel, antifreeze and Sterno.

The psychiatrists, Dr. P. Herbert Liberman, Dr. Jack Mendelson, Dr. Donald Wexler and Dr. Philip Solomon, included in their report a study of the personalities of the alcoholics. An attempt was made to determine the reasons for their willingness to drink substances which they knew to be lethal.