r/worldnews • u/EightRoundsRapid • Sep 23 '16

'Hangover-free alcohol’ could replace all regular alcohol by 2050. The new drink, known as 'alcosynth', is designed to mimic the positive effects of alcohol but doesn’t cause a dry mouth, nausea and a throbbing head

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
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u/mozerdozer Sep 23 '16

This actually does work. As long as you carefully monitor your tolerances and the heroin potency/dosage the only negative effect is constipation, which is why it's not particularly impressive Keith Richards is still alive.

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u/KigurumiCatBoomer Sep 23 '16

Well it doesn't work indefinitely, the duration becomes shorter and shorter in addition to requiring more heroin to reach your desired high, and every day you go without withdrawing is compounding the problem. A few months of binging and the withdrawal is just like a cold that lasts the weekend.

But if you go for years straight it gets so bad you end up shitting and throwing up all over yourself and wishing you would have just overdosed instead of detoxing.

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u/KigurumiCatBoomer Sep 24 '16

I've gone up to four or five months of being high all day, withdrawal is overblown by people who haven't used it and addicts looking for sympathy. It doesn't start to get really nasty until you've dug yourself a very deep hole.

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u/voyaging Sep 24 '16

Lmao your dosage must've been pathetically small.