Though most borderline alcoholics don’t need an anti-fun vaccine for alcoholism, those that drink a little too much could probably use the world’s first vaccine for alcoholism. Made by Scientists in Chile, the vaccine “works” by screwing over people who drink. Seriously, once you pump yourself with the juice, you’ll experience the worst hangover of your life.
According to The Santiago Times, the way the vaccine works is by telling the liver to not “express genes that metabolise alcohol.” So if some poor sap takes a swig of alcohol, he’ll be ridden with severe nausea, an accelerated heartbeat and an all around shitty time. The thinking is if you drink while vaccinated, it’s going to suck immediately. It’s not a foolproof fix for alcoholism but if the shot can make an alcoholic regret even taking a sip, it helps make the first step in fixing the problem a lot easier (of course it does nothing for the addictive personalities who’ll just find something else to fixate on).
The idea for the vaccine came from recreating a gene mutation in people of the Far East (think the Chinese, the Japanese, etc.)—certain people of those ethnicities cannot breakdown alcohol and thus, have lower alcoholism rates. The vaccine goes into preclinical trial this Spring and into human testing later this year. [The Santiago Times via FoodBeast]













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What Is a Hangover?
I think this has been trialled on me somehow, ever since I hit thirty I get whopper hangovers…
After just one pint?
I switched from Guinness to Bushmills. A pint of that does the trick!
Ive got to 38 and they are easing compared to the early years in my 30′s. Jeez they were tough times.
‘Some men just want to watch the world burn’
This is very easy to do, making it safe is the hard part, what you do is to sensitise the body to alcohol so that it triggers an allergic reaction, what is hard it to make sure you don’t make the allergic reaction to sever.
note: some paints have sensitising agents in them and if you ingest some of the paint (say you don’t wash your hands) you may become allergic to the food you ate.
There is already a treatment that does this. It’s called Disulfiram – basically it blocks aldehyde dehydrogenase, an enzyme that is involved in the alcohol breakdown pathway so blocking it causes a build of acetaldehyde – causing a very bad hangover.