All the pleasures of alcohol, with no downsides

[Foxy Brown]

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.

[ctz]

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.

[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.

[frblckstr1]

'synthehol'!

[JFC]

'synthehol'!

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

[jmantaiwan]

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

[Amplifier]

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

[IsobelPlayDead]

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

[Gblue]

ooh, a new cocktail that i must try