Today i saw an article on an alternative alcohol substitute. They claim that it simulates all the good things about having a drink without the side effects of mood swings, drunkenness and hangovers. They claim to also have an antidote to make you sober again instantaneously with just a pill.
Now before i dive into the pro's and con's of such a technology, let's take a look at other things that have aided the alcoholics of the world to circumvent the drawbacks to drinking.
Let's start off with Powdered Alcohol, just add water. This just makes alcohol more easily accessible and concealable to youth (why would an adult need to hide it?) and by-passes certain laws to cater to the impressionable, mold-able youth. I guess it's the "get them hooked when they're young" ideology. I guess you will soon be able to pick up your favorite drink next to the flour and sugar in the grocery store.
Then we move on to alcohol in pill form, which would allow people to calculate their exact required dosage. But anyone i know that has had a few, has also lost count or can't be bothered any to remember, so there goes that marketing tactic. Now someone can pop a handful of vodka pills and voila, instantly tanked and on the road to alcohol poisoning and doesn't smell of liquor. This will change roadblocks as there goes the smell of alcohol in the car so i expect a lot more questions such as "Did you consume any alcoholic drinks or pills tonight?....".
Follow up:
But there is a light at the end of the tunnel and it is not a train. Now that we have new ways to more easily become an alcoholic, we also have a pill to fight alcoholism. Now this is helpful science, it is reducing the number of alcoholics, not increasing it. But the fact we needed to go to the extent of making a medication to fight it....
Now lets go back to the article on an alternative alcohol substitute. This could help save a lot of people by allowing alcoholics, or just anyone who's had one too many, to become inebriated when they need to, but then sober again when the situation also arises...
Now an issue i can see with this is the good ol'
drunk drivers. Now they have a mechanism to get completely tanked, get behind the wheel, do the damage and before the cops show, pop the pill and VOILA instant sobriety and avoidance of a DUI charge. Plus there would be little evidence, if not any. Yet again, they will then develop a test to find that, but that would be to late anyways. My friend was recently killed by a drunk driver. The drunk driver was able to get out and try and assist her but after realizing he was in over his head, fled the scene and now denies being drunk too (Karma can deal with him). Court case starts soon for that .
Plus, what kind of society will we be creating when you can go get completely tanked on your break and come back sober an hour later? The reason more don't drink or drink heavily is due to hangovers and the lasting effects of those drinks. Now i am not against drinking but i am against drunk drivers and idiots who blame alcohol for their misguidance and now creating easier means for them to access that stupidity.
I guess in the end we will have pills to create the problems, pills to make the problems more easily accessible and then pills to fix the problems. Not that we already don't for other things...
What do you think of this? Should science be wasted inventing these kind of pills and meds when there are far better things they could be working on?
please leave any comments, suggestions or opinions.
said on : 07/03/10 @ 02:57
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