This means sickness, banging headaches and dry mouths after a night at the pub might be condemned to the dustbin of history in the not-so-distant future.
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Well, your prayers may finally have been answered!
Alcohol is responsible for 10 per cent of deaths and disease in the United Kingdom and Alcosynth, a synthetic version which is 100 times safer and hangover free faces harsh regulation despite being a major benefit.
The new synthetic alcohol known as “alcosynth” (imaginative) aims at allowing drinkers to indulge in a few tipples without the adverse side effects. It’s his hope that alcosynth will completely replace alcohol by 2050 and thereby reduce the public-health impact of long-term heart and liver damage caused by alcohol.
What’s more, it hasn’t been compromised on taste either, and is thought to make a pretty tasty mix of cocktails.
“They’ll go very nicely into mojitos”. He says the two alcosynth compounds being tested-one is bitter, the other mostly flavorless-work well in everything from a mojito to a Tom Collins.
It nearly sounds too good to be true! He believes they’ve been planning on it happening, “but they don’t want to rush into it because they’re making so much money from conventional alcohol”.
The synthetic alcohol is also very exciting as its consumption won’t batter the liver according to one of its creators and former United Kingdom (legal) drugs tsar Professor David Nutt, who hopes the safer, lighter drink might make the high street within a few years – if regulatory hassles can be sorted.
“We know a lot about the brain science of alcohol; it’s become very well understood in the last 30 years”, Nutt said.
This would be possible with a compound called alcosynth that imitates the positive effects of alcohol with none of the negative. A British professor thinks so.
Sam Bowman, executive director of the Adam Smith Institute, said: “It’s innovation not regulation that got us e-cigarettes”.
“People want healthier drinks”, Nutt added.
The new drink’s potency can also be more easily controlled, leaving us only mildly jolly rather than raving drunk.
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‘They emerged and prospered in spite of regulation, proving to be the best way to get people to quit quickly that we know of. Unfortunately, it could be a while before we’re able to order an alcosynth cocktail during happy hour, due to the cost of funding research into the drug and potential concerns over regulations.
