"Diet" cocktails are more intoxicating (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Having your alcohol with a sugar-free artificially sweetened mixer may cut calories, but it will also make you drunker, a study suggests. The problem, Australian researchers found, is that drinks made with "diet" mixers pass through the stomach more rapidly and, therefore, make blood alcohol levels spike particularly high. Their findings, published in the September issue of the American Journal of Medicine and reported earlier this year at a medical conference, are based ...