Get This Through Your Thick Skulls, People: Juice And Drugs Don't Mix.

If part of your morning routine consists of taking various drugs and washing them down with fruit juice, well, you'd better sit down.

According to a recently published study, fruit juices (grapefruit, orange, apple, et. al.) inhibit a drug's absorbency.

For a complete list of drugs whose parade fruit juice rains on, click this . If that doesn't work, I can save you the bother: if you're a geezer planning on a morning quickie before work, wash that boner pill down with some H20. If zoning out at work is today's M.O., might I recommend some diet Coke with your 100mg Valium?

There's no mention of grapefruit juice having any detrimental effect on intravenous drugs, powders, or roofies; so Bambyshambles, Robert Downy Jr., and your date tonight can all rest (un)easy.

Not surprisingly, nowhere in the article is there mention of citrus juice's ability to, not unlike above mentioned boner-pill, strengthen an elongate one's trip to Valhalla. I guess that's common knowledge at this point.

Here's the link to the NY Times article: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/