A new study published in the American Journal of Medicine suggests that cocktails made with mixers containing artificial sweetners can get a person more intoxicated than a mixer with regular sweetners.
Seems that diet drinks pass through the stomach faster than the regular ones. This makes the persons blood alcohol level spike quickly, thus getting you drunker, faster. It could also tip you over the leagsl limit. Of course you shoul never drink and drive in the first place.
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