Ladies, were you smart in university? You might be in trouble in your future....

A recent study has been done that has found that women that went to university and scored particularly well as a student are more than twice as likely to suffer from alcoholism. The London School of Economics carried out this test and their results were that "the more educated women are, the more likely they are to drink alcohol on most days and to report having problems due to their drinking patterns." Further, women who tend to have high marks are 2.1 times more likely to drink daily as adults. Now, one reason for this might be that they are in school until a later age and ultimately postpone the responsibilities of being a parent , leaving them with a more social life. Another explanation is that the university education usually leads to entering a male-dominated industry where drinking is a strong part of culture and consequently, they have to drink more.

Women with a university degree were 86% more likely to drink on a daily basis in comparison with those without one. Just be careful my smart lady friends! "People who abuse alcohol face a higher risk of suffering from health problems including cancer, liver cirrhosis, lung and cardiovascular disease, and mental and behavioural issues." To read the report, click here .

Another interesting article I found is that they are trying to create an alcohol substitute that allows you to feel inebriation from the alcohol but the hangover and drunkenness can be turned off by a pill. The whole purpose of the pill is to "turn off" the feeling of inebriation so people can "drive home or go to work". That sounds a little too crazy to me. But, if this does work, there are so many positive aspects that will come out of this. First, the purpose of this new alcohol will be to replace the current alcohol which is made up of ethanol and this ethanol could be sold as fuel. Second, in England, there were more than 800,000 alcohol-related admissions to the hospital in 2007 and 2008 - 6,500 were deaths and it cost the country 2.7 billion pounds.

This is still a long ways away, but the idea is there and there is the technology to make this happen. Kind of an interesting read. Click here for article .

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