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The best cure for hangovers is to avoid them. If you consistently get hangovers, you may have a drinking problem.
Hangovers - A Pain in the Workplace
Excessive drinking by employees cost businesses and industries worldwide billions of dollars in absenteeism and lost productivity, but it is not the heavy drinkers.
Congeners
These chemical impurities are the substances responsible for giving each drink its individual taste, color and aroma. Congeners do not cause drunkenness, but do add to your hangover.
UK Survey: 78 Percent Have Missed Work Due to Hangovers
According to a survey by Peninsula, an employment law firm, 78 percent of British workers admit to calling in sick because of a hangover and 71 percent say they have nodded off at work when they did show up with a hangover.
Drinking, Smoking Damages the Brain's Prefrontal Cortex
A Australian study has found that chronic smoking and alcohol abuse cause actual molecular changes that affect the brain's prefrontal cortex which is known to mediate desire, craving, pleasure, self control, decision making, fear and emotion.
Cure for Hangover Unlikely
Because many factors are involved in hangovers, a cure probably is unattainable, according to an editorial in the British Medical Journal.
What Is a Hangover?
A hangover is basically caused by toxins from alcohol and dehydration.
Voodoo and Other Hangover Cures
Check out how our ancestors cured their holiday hangovers.
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