Health Synthetic Alcohol Gives Drinkers a Buzz Minus the Hangover

[The Helper]

Still feeling the sting of New Year's Eve all these days later? A synthetic alcohol substitute developed from chemicals similar in composition to Valium could give users the pleasant feelings of tipsiness without affecting the parts of the brain that lead to barroom brawls, crippling addiction, and sleeping in your car.

Unlike all those bunk point-of-sale hangover remedies, this headache-eluding synthetic is being developed by some serious brainpower at Imperial College London. Professor David Nutt, one of Britain's top drug experts, was recently relieved of his position as a government advisor for comments about cannabis and MDMA. Now, he's trying to change the way Britons think, and feel, about getting drunk.

By harnessing benzodiazepines like diazepam, the chief ingredient in anti-anxiety med Valium, Nutt sees a future of drinking without becoming addicted, belligerent or -- and here's the kicker -- intoxicated. Using one of thousands of possible benzos, researchers are working to tailor a colorless, tasteless synthetic that could eventually replace the alcohol content in beer, wine and liquor.

Synthetic Alcohol Gives Drinkers a Buzz Minus the Hangover, Addiction

Still feeling the sting of New Year's Eve all these days later? A synthetic alcohol substitute developed from chemicals similar in composition to Valium could give users the pleasant feelings of tipsiness without affecting the parts of the brain that lead to barroom brawls, crippling addiction...

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Another Star Trek Like Advance - Synthohol FTW!

 

[Romek]

That's awesome.

 

[Samael88]

Dude, this is horrible Think how many great beers that will be ruined if this is cheaper to make

You don't ever mess with beer:thdown:

 

[Hatebreeder]

Whats the point of drinking alcohol if you're not going to get 'intoxicated'?

Seriously, if you don't want to get drunk, just drink alcoholfree beer.
Prob. tastes better than some synth crap :x

 

[Romek]

You get drunk, you just don't get hangovers, it seems.

 

[FireCat]

Maybe that's a good thing.

Oh god, hangoverrrrr. :thdown:

Same I've never had it this bad.

Well, but still it's alcohol. So I don't know it would be a great thing.

 

[sqrage]

Whats the point of drinking alcohol if you're not going to get 'intoxicated'?

Seriously, if you don't want to get drunk, just drink alcoholfree beer.
Prob. tastes better than some synth crap :x

Did you even read the title? Do you know what intoxicated means?

Hint: It doesn't mean when you're drunk persay. Alcohol is toxic which obviously doesn't mean it's good for your health, you'd still get drunk, just not intoxicated.

And why would it taste like crap if it's tasteless?

The downside would be though, if it's tasteless, you wont know when you're drinking alcohol and you can drink more than you're limit without knowing it. Many more downsides come with this, but there are also a lot of positives. Drinking would be kinda boring without that strong taste of alcohol to get through though.

 

[Tru_Power22]

That's pretty sweet.

Now we just need a replicator.

 

[ReVolver]

Now what am I going to do with all this Menudo?

 

[Ninja_sheep]

side effects_?

 

[Varine]

side effects_?

Drunkedness?

Where's my synthetic meth?

 

[Slapshot136]

if you still get drunk, but don't get the hangover, wont that just make more people alcoholics? I see the benefit of not getting a hangover.. but that should be a reason to not drink in the first place, or at least not drink too much.. so I cant see how this would help.. hopefully this will be more expensive then normal alcohol atleast

 

[Varine]

if you still get drunk, but don't get the hangover, wont that just make more people alcoholics? I see the benefit of not getting a hangover.. but that should be a reason to not drink in the first place, or at least not drink too much.. so I cant see how this would help.. hopefully this will be more expensive then normal alcohol atleast

Screw that dude needs to be cheap, and we're going to have a big TheHelper party in... whatever city is on average the closest.

 

[Bartuc08]

Drinkers could toss back as many glasses of the swill as they want but would remain only mildly drunk from first drink to last, keeping good-timers within legal limits whether they like it or not. If one did find the buzz too intense for a particular task -- say, driving home after a long night at the pub -- those warm feelings of inebriation could be instantly turned off with a simple antidote pill that mutes the synthetic's effects on brain receptors.

i prefer to get completely smashed myself...

and as far as hangovers go, i like to throw everything up, i usualy wake up refreshed the next day

but this could be fun for those social events where you just want a wee bit of the liquid courage.

 

[Matemeo]

Great support for this guy. Isn't afraid to post the truth and is apparently brilliant. :thup::thup:

 

[sqrage]

but this could be fun for those social events where you just want a wee bit of the liquid courage.

And the designated driver wont have to miss ALL the fun.

 

[Varine]

DESIGNATED Drive, not sober....

 

[Bronxernijn]

Bavaria (a Dutch (I think) beer brand) has done a test before, they offered a party with free beer, just didn't tell it was alcohol-free beer and everyone appeared to be drunk No synthetics, pure placebo

 

[T.s.e]

Bavaria (a Dutch (I think) beer brand) has done a test before, they offered a party with free beer, just didn't tell it was alcohol-free beer and everyone appeared to be drunk No synthetics, pure placebo

Aye, and they offered real beer, but told them it was alcohol-free. They didn't get drunk. There's a lot more psychology involved in drunkenness than actual bodily effects.

It still shrinks your liver though.

 

[Varine]

Aye, and they offered real beer, but told them it was alcohol-free. They didn't get drunk. There's a lot more psychology involved in drunkenness than actual bodily effects.

It still shrinks your liver though.

It can. Alcohol isn't bad for you unless you take too much.