Synthetic booze for a high sans health risks.

GOODBYE TO HANGOVER
Synthetic booze for a high sans health risks
November 11 2009 | Times of India Bangalore.

 
London: A substance is being developed which will give the high of alcohol without the negative effects like a hangover or liver damage.
Controversial former UK government drugs tsar professor David Nutt is the man behind the unique creation. I am working on a prototype of a synthetic alcohol. We can make someone feel pleasantly inebriated then reverse it, the Sun quoted him as saying.
He added: We have a partial alternative tested on volunteers. The first ever synthetic alcohol could be available in three to five years. 

Nutt, who was sacked as chairman of the independent Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs after saying ecstasy is safer than alcohol, believes the drink would cut down the number of alcohol related deaths.
He said: At the moment it is very hard to treat alcohol poisoning medics simply have to wait for booze to clear the system. With the new approach , they would have an antidote available immediately. 

We have worked out how alcohol affects the brain and can target these areas. We gave one volunteer a substance similar to Valium, which is a sedative. The feeling was similar to being drunk. We then reversed this, he added. ANI