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One Expensive Trick That Might Somewhat Improve a Hangover

Sep 24, 2015 | 58 videos
Video by The Atlantic

If you go to the emergency room after acute alcohol intoxication (hungover), you'll be given IV hydration. In mild cases, a nurse can now bring that hydration to your office. In this episode of If Our Bodies Could Talk, senior editor James Hamblin investigates the lengths to which some people will go to undo their excesses.

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Authors: James Hamblin, Nicolas Pollock, Jaclyn Skurie

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