"replace old faithful ethanol with a cocktail of drugs"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04...replace_booze/
--> Sinister moves are afoot to replace old faithful ethanol --> with a cocktail of drugs engineered to mimic its effects. --> Bristol professor David Nutt reckons chemicals called --> partial agonists offer a turn off the Yellow Puke Road and --> into beerless drugtopia. --> --> He claims: "The benefits to society could be so --> profound." --> --> The technology, mooted in The Journal of Psychopharmacology, --> hijacks receptors in the brain called GABA-As. These Not gabba-gabba-As? --> signallers are associated with the positive effects of drink --> like confidence, openness and inflated sense of one's own --> attractiveness. Some of the many subtypes are responsible --> for less desirable behaviours; falling over, aggression, --> karaoke. --> --> Nutt's plan is to target only the benefits with a potent mix --> of partial agonists that wouldn't press the negative --> buttons. What's more, the drunkard's compulsory attempt at --> sobering up by chomping spoonfuls of dry Gold Blend would be --> replaced by a hit of an instant antidote drug called --> flumazenil. --> --> While liver failure admissions to casualty would doubtless --> plummet, surely such a endless, risk free intoxication is --> the greatest threat to civilisation since bird flu. --> Drugged-up worker's productivity would crash, roads would be --> chaos, gangs of jobless landlords would maraud through --> Britain's fine market towns. --> --> Perhaps more importantly, the universal Yin Yang of pleasure --> pain would be subverted if a night on the tiles wasn't --> followed by a morning on the toilet. |
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