To the Editor: The association between limb compression and the crush syndrome as a complication of narcotic overdose (N Engl J Med 284:368–369, 1971) brought to mind a similar problem recently seen at the Boston City Hospital that was caused by a much more frequently used Central-nervous-system depressant: ethyl alcohol.On December 6, 1968, after having consumed "two or three sixpacks of beer," a 21-year-old single man went home and quarreled with his mother. He then went out to the family car in the garage, where he fell asleep. Fifteen hours later he was found by his brother on the . . .