How Can You Minimize the Risk of Dependency?

Chris Smith: We have invented small molecules which target subtypes of the GABA system with a deliberate ambition to do exactly what you say. The plan is to have a bottle of it here and synthetic molecule which we call our chorale. There are three and a half million deaths a year globally from alcohol. If it was a drug for COVID it would be on the market already, because if we had the same interest in governments reducing the harms of alcohol there will be massive investment. And that is it for this week the five life sciences back next Sunday when we'll find out if an AI chatbot is as good as a broadcaster.