Creating Synthetic Alcohol
We have a funny relationship with alcohol.\nMany of us enjoy how it can make us more outgoing or ready to laugh but for others, it can be a source of significant, long-term problems.\nSo could a synthetic alcohol - which provides the relaxing and socially lubricating qualities of alcohol without the hangovers - be a solution?\nProfessor David Nutt, Edmond J. Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, and the man behind Alcarelle, joined Jonathan to discuss.\nDr. Shane Bergin & Dr. Lara Dungan also joined Jonathan to run through the week's science news in Newsround.\nListen and subscribe to\xa0Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea\xa0on\xa0Apple Podcasts\xa0and\xa0Spotify.\n\xa0\xa0\nDownload, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.\n\xa0\xa0\xa0\nYou can also listen to Newstalk live on\xa0newstalk.com\xa0or on Alexa, by\xa0adding the Newstalk skill\xa0and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.