Tuesday, September 13, 2011

BRITISH SCIENTIST WORKING ON A REPLACEMENT FOR ALCOHOL TO GET YOU DRUNK AND UN-DRUNK INSTANTLY

This is a really wild one! It may sound insane, unreal to man y but its happening! British scientists are working on a replacement for alcohol that could produce a mild intoxication, but won’t get you drunk. In addition, the effects could be reversed instantly when needed.
Recently news in the British press broke about a new study,Led by Professor David Nutt. The scientist, who was recently fired as the UK’s top drugs advisor for comments about marijuana, and a team at Imperial College London are investigating substances that could replace ethanol (alcohol) in beverages – substances that would produce mild but not extreme intoxication and that could be reversed when needed.
Imagine having drinks at at your favorite concert, or going to your friends birthday party and getting sobered right before you drive home?!
“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,” Professor Nutt says to British media outlets. 
He and his cronies are looking at benzodiazepines in solution as likely candidates for an alcohol replacement. There are thousands of benzodiazepines in existence, and Nutt believes that at least one will meet his requirements; allowing him to produce a tasteless and odorless, mildly intoxicating solution that could be added to drinks after the alcohol had been removed.
Not many have shown an interest in funding him, but Nutt hopes that governments will see the value of his vision.
He says, “Why not use advances in pharmacology to find something safer and better?”

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