Having a contraceptive pill not working together well with alcohol is probably one of the worst user interfaces ever. At least judging from the behaviour I observe amongst people in the UK :)
Then one of the participants drank some contraband Scotch and became
unusually, violently ill. He confessed his transgression to the
researchers, and follow-up studies confirmed his account: WIN 18,446
didn’t mix well with booze.
WIN’s side effects sounded familiar to Amory. In his clinical practice,
he’d occasionally prescribed Antabuse (disulfiram) to patients who
struggled with alcohol addiction. The drug blocks a form of the enzyme
acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH), which helps the body metabolize
alcohol;
Can't be that bad. Though, that still means that there could be other interactions not described?
Yes, but it might be so much smaller a market than a male contraceptive without that problem that the company decided it wouldn't be able to recoup its development costs.
> 30% of american adults don't drink at all
> the top 10% of drinkers consume 74 drinks per week (over 10 drinks per day)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/25/think...
Wow, that's horrifying.