

You need only one night of excess for a bad hangover. To develop alcohol withdrawal, you have to drink heavily for several days, she says. "Withdrawal is not the same as hangover," Rohsenow says. All the telltale signs found on this list have been scientifically proven to be related to hangovers, and not, say, to lingering intoxication or withdrawal. The questionnaire covers nine different symptoms of hangover, each rated on a scale from one (mild) to seven (severe). Still in bed, I grabbed a pen and the Acute Hangover Survey sheet I had printed out the night before. So scientists have developed a survey-similar to questionnaires that can rate depression or back pain-to capture the dimensions of a hangover. But a lot of the research on hangovers is "not there yet," says Dan Levy, a professor at Harvard Medical School who is a member of the Alcohol Hangover Research Group. They want cold, hard data to document the effects of hangovers. I could have moaned all morning about how terrible I felt, but that's not particularly useful to scientists who study hangovers. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play "It Feels Like. Along the way I hoped to bust myths about hangovers and find facts to help you deal with your next one. She's one of a group of scientists called the Alcohol Hangover Research Group that studies hangovers, especially how they can contribute to public health and occupational hazards (like drinking too much for a story).įor the sake of science, I arranged to follow my evening of indulgence by taking the Acute Hangover Survey, a questionnaire used in hangover research, and discuss my results with the scientists who use it. At that point I switched to whiskey-not because I was sad, but because I planned to get deathly hung over.īefore my night of pouring back one too many, I had made contact with Damaris Rohsenow, a professor at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at the Brown University School of Public Health. The craft beers had been going down easy, up until the time when the game mercifully ended.

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