A safe high?

If you could get your hands on a drug that was perfectly safe and non-habit forming (think of masturbation as non-habit forming) would you use it? Would people begin using it all the time and cause societal problems?

A British scientist's recent announcement that he had found a way to develop a drug that mimics the happy effects of alcohol--sociability and relaxation--without producing next-day headaches or ravaging the body sparked an immediate controversy. “Every sip of alcohol does rot your liver,” said David Nutt, a professor of psychopharmacology at Bristol University, “and I think it would be preferable to have something that doesn’t rot your liver” but makes you feel happy. Nutt said he had also come up with a way to instantly sober up from the fake drunk feeling--by taking a drug now used to treat tranquilizer overdoses. But while this cocktail of drugs (still in the theoretical research phase) may seem like a dream come true for anyone who has ever awoken with a splitting headache following a night of overindulgence, is taking a drug to produce a “good drunk” really a good idea?