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21st November 2013
06:04pm GMT

Nutt believes it is possible to get drunk safely
Professor Nutt, who works at Imperial College London, and has spent most of his working life treating alcoholics, says harm-free booze would ‘revolutionise’ healthcare.
‘These ambitions are well within the grasp of modern neuroscience,’ he says.
His career has not been without controversy; it is important to note that he was sacked from his post as the Government’s chief drugs adviser in 2009 for declaring that cannabis, Ecstasy and LSD are less harmful than alcohol and cigarettes.
The professor claims to have tried out the process for himself, ‘After exploring one possible compound, I was quite relaxed and sleepily inebriated for an hour or so, then within minutes of taking the antidote I was up giving a lecture with no impairment whatsoever,’ he said.
He is of the opinion that he can create a substance that ‘makes people feel relaxed and sociable, and remove the unwanted effects’.
Although this is a great idea in theory, unfortunately we're not sure that this is a realistic achievement!