Scientists want more money to research hangover cures
By Keith Wagstaff | 7:35am EST
Scientists at University of California, Davis, apparently unsatisfied with the preferred post-drinking-binge remedy of Bloody Marys and breakfast burritos, are arguing that the U.S. needs to fund more research on hangover cures.
Why? Because the "related absenteeism and poor job performance" associated with hangovers costs U.S. companies $148 billion per year, according to NBCNews.com. That comes out to about $2,000 per working adult.
Also, hangovers are terrible. "We really don't know much about a hangover and it is an incredibly puzzling response — the symptoms only show up after all the alcohol is metabolized and gone from the body," Alyson Mitchell, a professor at the department of food science and technology at UC Davis, told NBCNews.com. "The fact that something is the most toxic after it has been eliminated from the body [is unusual]."
While there is no magic cure for the hangover yet, science has confirmed that eating a pepperoni pizza before hanging out with your bros was totally a good idea:
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It'll do in a pinch I suppose. 
By Bill Briggs
OK, now it's official: Everything that happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas -- even your alcohol-infused headache and upchucking tummy.
A mobile, hangover treatment center – a bus adorned with plush sofas, a well-coiffed doctor and special IV bags – is set to roll out Saturday, trolling the Las Vegas strip from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., vowing to quickly flush last night’s fun overdose from your wilted body.
Hangover Heaven is the brainchild of Dr. Jason Burke, a board-certified anesthesiologist who trained at Duke University and who –- if his venture pops the financial cork -- hopes soon to quit his day job as a hospital anesthetist.
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The alcoholic genes are strong in my family.
I'm also the most boring drunk in the world. I've never talked much to begin with, and when I'm drunk, I don't talk at all. I think "not talking" is what happens when my inhibitions are loosened. All my life people have been telling me I need to talk more. Give me a bottle of wine and I'll fall into my quiet-watching-people-mode or my thinking-about-the nature-of-life-the universe-and-everything mode.
Sadly, my current psych meds make alcohol boring. I like beer, but it's less interesting now. I experimented a bit trying to drink more to get the same "pleasant buzz" but that didn't work so I might as well spend my money on other vices like potato chips.
It's just weird. Our grocery store has a huge selection of very good alcoholic beverages of every sort, including an entire aisle devoted to beer, the mass market beer on one side, the craft beers on the other. I was looking at them yesterday and nothing struck my fancy. I bought a bag of pistachios instead.
So far as this study goes, fuck productivity. All us busy little busy beavers and our "productivity" are destroying the planet. Almost as bad, the profits of all this increased productivity don't flow back to the workers, the money simply make the plutocrats more powerful.
In our current economic system absenteeism and poor job performance are good for the environment. It would make more sense to have longer vacations, higher wages, and shorter work weeks, but in the absence of those benefits, other brakes on productivity are a good thing. If we don't slow ourselves down, Mother Nature will, and we will not like Her methods. What's a little hangover compared to starvation, plagues, and war?
