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Or David Nutt's suggestion that, as a public health issue, we should be trying to engineer a drug with the same subjective effects as alcohol but without the to
by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Or David Nutt's suggestion that, as a public health issue, we should be trying to engineer a drug with the same subjective effects as alcohol but without the toxicity or addictiveness: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/alcohol-benefits-no-dangers-closer-think http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/alcohol...
(such a chemical would, in practice, be immediately banned in most countries)
- paulhauggis 12y agoIsn't this what quaaludes were in the 70s and 80s? (and they were quickly banned)
- chrisdevereux 12y agoHabit forming and toxic, so no. But yes, they were banned.
- Zigurd 12y agoMore, or less, than alcohol?
- chrisdevereux 12y agoComparable, I think. Definitely addictive. Less liver toxicity, but easier to overdose fatally (respiratory depression).
- Scoundreller 12y ago"Toxic" is a misunderstood term. Toxicity is all about dose. The water piped into my residence can be toxic despite meeting drinking water-quality guidelines. If I drank its full output continuously for just minutes, I'd be dead of water intoxication.
- andreasvc 12y agohttp://www.drugs.com/quaaludes.html http://www.drugs.com/quaaludes.html Doesn't seem to fit the bill to me, it has strong withdrawal effects and makes people do reckless things, according the link above.
- evan_ 12y agoSynthehol! http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Synthehol http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Synthehol
- SilasX 12y agoPhenylethylamine?