Scientist Says He's Found A Pill To Get You Drunk Without The Hangover

(Source) – A British scientist says he’s found a new way to get drunk without a hangover, or even any alcohol. The new drug could do for drinking what e-cigarettes have done for smoking – that is, allow people to indulge in their favorite vice without risk of addiction or other negative health effects, Professor David Nutt told BBC Today on Monday. Nutt, a neuropsychopharmacologist at Imperial College London and former drugs advisor to the U.K. government, said the drug would be consumed as a cocktail drink and targets neurotransmitters in the brain to mimic the pleasurable effects of drunkenness, The Independent reported.

On the surface this is a great idea. Pill to get shitfaced whenever you want with no health problems or effort? Wow, that’s the dream isn’t it?

No, it’s not.

I’m against this pill for the same reason I’m against a casino in Boston, because it’s dangerous for me personally. Like right now, if I want to go to the casino I have to go to Foxwoods or Mohegan sun. And that’s a production. I have to go on the weekend and I get a bunch of friends to go with me. So since it takes effort, I don’t do it too often. But if there was one in Boston? I’d be at the roulette tables during lunch. There’s no distance or effort to keep me honest.

This pill is the same way. I don’t need to feel bloated and get fat drinking a bunch of beers? I don’t need to reek like alcohol? I don’t need to feel like shit in the morning? Well, then there’s nothing keeping me from being “drunk” 24/7. And fat, with neurotransmitters mimicking the pleasurable effects of drunkenness, and stupid is no way to go through life.