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talkpoliticsSort of old news, but still.
sep 2016 (for background)
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/hangover-free-alcohol-david-nutt-alcosynth-nhs-postive-effects-benzodiazepine-guy-bentley-a7324076.html
oct 2017
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/scientists-plan-hangoverfree-cocktails-and-100-bars-to-serve-them-a3651011.html
oct 2017 (paywall)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/drugs-scientist-david-nutt-creates-stir-with-hangover-free-cocktails-7hg98kp8q
I'm worried about two things though, first that lobbyism will delay or even destroy this, and second if the patent will prevent this from reaching it's true potential. I hope, since the author is a proper scientist, that he will release the patent once the kinks are sorted out.
Btw my favourite quote from this is the following:
“It’s an interesting idea, but too much in its infancy at the moment for us to comment on,” a Department of Health spokesperson told The Independent. “I don’t think we’d give money to it until it was a little further along,” said the spokesperson. "If [Professor Nutt] were to apply for funding, it would go through the process of everything else and would be judged on its merits.” “It would be great for producing better workforce efficiency if no one was hungover,” they added.
sep 2016 (for background)
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/hangover-free-alcohol-david-nutt-alcosynth-nhs-postive-effects-benzodiazepine-guy-bentley-a7324076.html
oct 2017
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/scientists-plan-hangoverfree-cocktails-and-100-bars-to-serve-them-a3651011.html
oct 2017 (paywall)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/drugs-scientist-david-nutt-creates-stir-with-hangover-free-cocktails-7hg98kp8q
I'm worried about two things though, first that lobbyism will delay or even destroy this, and second if the patent will prevent this from reaching it's true potential. I hope, since the author is a proper scientist, that he will release the patent once the kinks are sorted out.
Btw my favourite quote from this is the following:
“It’s an interesting idea, but too much in its infancy at the moment for us to comment on,” a Department of Health spokesperson told The Independent. “I don’t think we’d give money to it until it was a little further along,” said the spokesperson. "If [Professor Nutt] were to apply for funding, it would go through the process of everything else and would be judged on its merits.” “It would be great for producing better workforce efficiency if no one was hungover,” they added.
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Date: 14/10/17 02:31 (UTC)If this takes off, and takes over - forty years from now, will someone come out with alcohol that causes hangovers? Will the old timers have to explain what hangovers are, will the kids think it's stupid - will the nostalgia force you to try it, at least one more time - the same way it makes you drink one orange crush a year?
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Date: 14/10/17 07:55 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 14/10/17 11:46 (UTC)What do you do the next morning? Just get up and go about your day - pain free, regret free? It would feel good, but it wouldn't feel right.
You'd feel guilty, knowing you just got away with something - and Karma or Bacchus would be coming to settle up eventually...