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Throughout the course of his or her legal career the average personal injury solicitor in the UK will deal with a depressing number of car crash cases caused by drink driving.
Whether it is litigation for whiplash, passenger injuries or more serious brain- or spinal- related damage, the continued prevalence of drink driving is a matter of grave concern for all road users.
Time and again, government, police and road safety organisations try and address the issue through a combination of education and enforcement.
Unfortunately, these strategies have had little effect in recent years and people continue to suffer as a result of the actions of drunks behind the wheel.
All of which makes developments currently taking place at Imperial College London of real interest to any personal injury solicitor in the UK.
Led by Professor David Nutt, researchers are in the process of creating a synthetic alcohol that, with the intervention of an antidote pill, can be "switched off" to allow drinkers to return to a sober state that would allow them to drive safely home, faculties unimpeded.
The pill would most likely be a kind of benzodiazepine - tasteless and colourless - meaning it would take no pleasure away from the taste sensation of drinking.
Professor Nutt comments, "I've been in experiments where I've taken benzos; one minute I was sedated and nearly asleep, five minutes later I was giving a lecture.
"No one's ever tried targeting this before, possibly because it will be so hard to get it past the regulators.
"Most of the benzos are controlled under the Medicines Act. The law gives a privileged position to alcohol, which has been around for 3,000 years. But why not use advances in pharmacology to find something safer and better?"
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