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From: hhttp://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/hangoversdontpreventnextdrinkingbinge/

THE HANGOVER: PART N+1

afterwards

Developing a hangover doesn't prevent or even significantly delay the next

at least
average

drinking bout. Sophie Bushwick reports

bedtime
I'm never drinking again. And this time I mean it!

binge

Anyone who's suffered through a bad (1) ____________________ has (2)

bout

____________________these words. But does a hangover even (3) ____________________

delay

your next drink?

Scientists

recruited

dependence
almost

400

adults

who

consumed

alcohol

(4)

deter

____________________once a week. At the beginning of the study, the participants

developing

answered questions about alcohol and nicotine dependence. Afterwards, they kept
drinking diaries for three weeks. They also kept morning and bedtime reports on
their mental (5) ____________________ and stress level.
To

see

if

hangovers

inspired

participants

to

delay

their

next

(6)

____________________, researchers (7) ____________________ the time between drinking

episodes. On average, hangovers did postpone the next drinkbut only by about
six hours. The work is published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and

discovering
entirely
hangover
likely
limit
measured

Experimental Research.

muttered

In addition to discovering that hangovers fail to (8) ____________________ drinking,

postpone

the study found that people with alcohol (9) ____________________ or financial stress

prevent

were more likely to develop hangovers. And of course, the only way to prevent

recruited

hangovers entirely was to (10) ____________________drinking. Cheers!

status
stress

Sophie Bushwick

The Hangover: Part N+1 - Mar 11, 2014

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