Sounds too good to be true, but they hired scientists to create synthetic alcohol.

The alcohol substitute, which is being researched by a team at Imperial College London, will be made from Valium-like benzodiazepines. While benzos furnishes drinkers with a feeling of wellbeing, they don’t affect parts of the brain that control addiction and mood swings, and they’re easy to flush out of the body (no more nasty hangover cures!). Perhaps most intriguingly, the chemicals can be “switched off” with an antidote. Eventually, researchers involved in the project envision a world where alcohol content in beer and wine is replaced with their synthetic substance.

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