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With Professor David Nutt's synthetic beer, we’d never learn to live with the consequences of our behaviour
Professor David Nutt, the scientist who was the Labour government’s drugs adviser, this week appeared on the Today programme seeking investment for substances that mimic the effect of alcohol.
Why bother? Because a drug that’s less pharmacologically “messy” than alcohol could deliver the pleasures of your favourite tipple – minus the harm. He suggests that in a country with thousands of alcohol-related deaths a year, it’s time we looked into safer alternatives.
The vision is for “synthetic beer”, to leave the imbiber without a hangover: consequence-free (and so guilt-free?) drinking. During the interview, Professor Nutt said: “I think this would be a serious revolution in health… just like the e-cigarette is going to revolutionise the smoking of tobacco.”
A guilt-free drink doesn’t make me think about smoking (and thinking about smoking will most likely be banned soon – even e-cigarettes are forbidden on open-air station platforms, suggesting that the ban was about the ruling class rubbing out behaviour they found displeasing, as much as it was about public health). Guilt-free drinking makes me think of a brave new world, and not in a good way.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/10441349/The-whole-point-of-drinking-is-the-hangover.html
Professor David Nutt, the scientist who was the Labour government’s drugs adviser, this week appeared on the Today programme seeking investment for substances that mimic the effect of alcohol.
Why bother? Because a drug that’s less pharmacologically “messy” than alcohol could deliver the pleasures of your favourite tipple – minus the harm. He suggests that in a country with thousands of alcohol-related deaths a year, it’s time we looked into safer alternatives.
The vision is for “synthetic beer”, to leave the imbiber without a hangover: consequence-free (and so guilt-free?) drinking. During the interview, Professor Nutt said: “I think this would be a serious revolution in health… just like the e-cigarette is going to revolutionise the smoking of tobacco.”
A guilt-free drink doesn’t make me think about smoking (and thinking about smoking will most likely be banned soon – even e-cigarettes are forbidden on open-air station platforms, suggesting that the ban was about the ruling class rubbing out behaviour they found displeasing, as much as it was about public health). Guilt-free drinking makes me think of a brave new world, and not in a good way.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/10441349/The-whole-point-of-drinking-is-the-hangover.html
