A pill to cure hangovers

Wednesday, 04 January 2012 12:36

Written by Editor

The creators of tablets called Blowfish claim that they can cure hangover symptoms.  The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has allowed them to be sold as an over-the-counter drug but doctors warn that the pills should not be seen as a licence to overdo the drinking. A spokesman for Rally Labs, the company which created Blowfish, said it had investigated the causes and effects of hangovers, experimenting with different combinations of ingredients on the staff and their friends. The "cure" does not contain secret ingredients mixed in a complicated formula – it is basically a blend of high doses of aspirin and caffeine packed in effervescent tablets that dissolve in water, to drink in the morning. The two ingredients work together to fight fatigue and pain, two main complaints of hangover sufferers. It also contains a little something sweet to help the medicine go down. Blowfish is not the first treatment aimed at hangover sufferers.

A spokesman for the Addiction Medicine at the American Academy of Family Physicians said that every year there is a new product out that claims to be the cure against hangovers, adding that "Blowfish is simply this year's thing". He said that not getting drunk is the best and only real cure for hangovers.