Hangover-Free Booze Is Coming!
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Jan 7 2010, 12:01 PM
The greatest idea ever. Booze that gets you wasted, but comes with a pill that can instantly sober you up for driving, and no bad after-effects. How come we're only now thinking of this?
From the UK Telegraph:
The new alcohol is being developed by a team at Imperial College London, led
by Professor David Nutt, Britain's top drugs expert who was recently sacked
as a government adviser for his comments about cannabis and ecstasy.
He envisions a world in which people could drink without getting drunk, he
said.
No matter how many glasses they had, they would remain in that pleasant state
of mild inebriation and at the end of an evening out, revellers could pop a
sober-up pill that would let them drive home.
Prof Nutt and his team are concentrating their efforts on benzodiazepines, of
which diazepam, the chief ingredient of Valium is one.
Thousands of candidate benzos are already known to science. He said it is just
a matter of identifying the closest match and then, if necessary, tailoring
it to fit society’s needs.
Ideally, like alcohol, it should be tasteless and colourless, leaving those
characteristics to the drink it’s in.
Eventually it would be used to replace the alcohol content in beer, wine and
spirits and the recovered ethanol (the chemical name for alcohol) could be
sold as fuel.
We really are living in the future.
The greatest idea ever. Booze that gets you wasted, but comes with a pill that can instantly sober you up for driving, and no bad after-effects. How come we're only now thinking of this?
From the UK Telegraph:
We really are living in the future.The new alcohol is being developed by a team at Imperial College London, led by Professor David Nutt, Britain's top drugs expert who was recently sacked as a government adviser for his comments about cannabis and ecstasy.
He envisions a world in which people could drink without getting drunk, he said.
No matter how many glasses they had, they would remain in that pleasant state of mild inebriation and at the end of an evening out, revellers could pop a sober-up pill that would let them drive home.
Prof Nutt and his team are concentrating their efforts on benzodiazepines, of which diazepam, the chief ingredient of Valium is one.
Thousands of candidate benzos are already known to science. He said it is just a matter of identifying the closest match and then, if necessary, tailoring it to fit society’s needs.
Ideally, like alcohol, it should be tasteless and colourless, leaving those characteristics to the drink it’s in.
Eventually it would be used to replace the alcohol content in beer, wine and spirits and the recovered ethanol (the chemical name for alcohol) could be sold as fuel.
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