Hangovers

“Wine is only sweet to happy men,” wrote an unhappy John Keats to his sweetheart.1 His observation seems to have been vindicated. Harburg et al found that psychosocial factors such as guilt about drinking, a neurotic personality, becoming angry or depressed while drinking, and having suffered “negative life events” in the past 12 months are better predictors of symptoms of hangover than the amount of ethanol drunk.2 In fact, ethanol itself may...