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Title: All the pleasures of alcohol, with no downsides
Post by: Foxy Brown on April 13, 2006, 04:54:41 PM

CASUAL drinkers are unlikely to have raised their glass to the news last month that most people who suffer severe alcohol-induced liver disease are social drinkers not alcoholics. Nor to the finding that moderate drinking might not, after all, help prevent heart disease.

There may, however, just be a solution to our drinking woes - one that will allow us to go to a bar and drink as much as we want; get merry, not legless; wake without a hangover; and never have to worry that one of our favourite pastimes may be killing us. It's a cocktail of drugs that mimics the pleasurable effects of alcohol without the downsides. The idea is only on the drawing board, but there is no scientific reason why it could not be made right now, says psychopharmacologist David Nutt of the University of Bristol in the UK. (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025474.100-all-the-pleasures-of-alcohol-with-no-downsides.html)

Title: All the pleasures of alcohol, with no downsides
Post by: ctz on April 14, 2006, 03:18:45 AM

Well it might be kinda handy.

However, I think it's ok that you have to pay a price for happiness. It's bringing balance to the force.

Title: All the pleasures of alcohol, with no downsides
Post by: ctz on April 16, 2006, 06:12:16 PM

Quote from: ctz

However, I think it's ok that you have to pay a price for happiness. It's bringing balance to the force.

After this morning, I changed my mind. The force doesn't need any balance.

Title: All the pleasures of alcohol, with no downsides
Post by: frblckstr1 on April 16, 2006, 07:46:34 PM

'synthehol'!

Title: All the pleasures of alcohol, with no downsides
Post by: JFC on April 16, 2006, 08:40:41 PM

Quote from: frblckstr1

'synthehol'!

Ah, so I wasn't the only one who thought "Star Trek" upon reading this.  :lol:

Title: All the pleasures of alcohol, with no downsides
Post by: jmantaiwan on August 22, 2006, 05:41:58 PM

Sure it sounds great now untill we find out what bad things that stuff doest to us...

Title: All the pleasures of alcohol, with no downsides
Post by: Amplifier on August 22, 2006, 06:04:56 PM

This would take all the fun out of drinking XD Probably not good for you one way or the other, though. :sweatdrop:

Title: All the pleasures of alcohol, with no downsides
Post by: IsobelPlayDead on August 22, 2006, 06:32:51 PM

thats good, we need to replace alcohol with a "cocktail of drugs."

Title: All the pleasures of alcohol, with no downsides
Post by: Gblue on August 22, 2006, 09:10:03 PM

ooh, a new cocktail that i must try :)