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Preventing Holidaze: Hangover Helpers
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Avoid day-after regrets—not to mention pain—with a little advance planning.


If you're wearing a lamp shade, it's too late: Three drinks can be enough to induce pain and suffering in the a.m. Don't think you can bail yourself out with those hangover-cure concoctions for sale on the Internet. "There's no cure, only prevention," says Robert Swift, MD, PhD, associate director of the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown Medical School. But next time around, you may be able to salvage your morning after by following this advice.

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