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GABA Labs is doing everything it can to transform social drinking for adults, developing functional ingredients as patentable alternatives to alcohol that allegedly mimics the desired effects of alcohol without leaving people with a hangover. Based in the United Kingdom, GABA Labs has created products using a synthetic GABAergic ingredient to enhance social drinking and put human wellness at the forefront. Its leading product, “Alcarelle,” enhances conviviality and sociability when consumed while avoiding alcohol’s harmful effects. While it has not yet been approved for use, GABA Labs has applied for registration for Alcarelle as a “novel food” in the U.K.,...

Last November, Eurostat, the European Union's statistical office, published the results of its most recent Life Satisfaction survey. Residents of each of the EU's member countries were asked to evaluate how satisfied they were with their lives as a whole, using a scale from 0 to 10. In the end, the Finns proved to be the most pleased with ...well, everything, with a final score of 8.1. The results of a new research study from the University of Helsinki and the University of Eastern Finland will probably give Finns something else to be happy about: according to Yle, these scientists...

Beer is completely delicious and refreshing – regardless of the season. After a long day at work, what could be better than settling down in your local pub with a few pints of cold lager? When are the best times to go to the supermarket to get reduced items? However, many of us soon regret it when on waking the next day for work, we feel like our soul has been ripped out and s**t upon. Well potentially, not anymore. In what could possible be life-changing news, someone claims to have finally created the formula for hangover-free beer. Thomas Gesink,...

One in three employees admits they have been to work with a hangover and more than one in 10 has been drunk at their desk, a study suggests. Staff said they made mistakes, struggled to concentrate and had to go home early as a result of drinking. Four out of five employers say alcohol is the biggest threat to the well-being of their staff, according to a survey for Norwich Union Healthcare. Alcohol Concern said bosses needed to be aware of symptoms of alcohol abuse. One thousand people and 250 businesses were interviewed about drinking habits for the survey. Of...

The only way to avoid a hangover at Christmas is to stay sober. Researchers who examined eight trials of traditional hangover remedies found there was no clear proof any worked. Researchers said: "No compelling evidence exists to suggest that any conventional or complementary intervention is effective for preventing or treating alcohol hangover. "The most effective way to avoid the symptoms of alcohol-induced hangover is to practise abstinence or moderation." Dr Max Pittler, from Exeter's Peninsular Medical School, led the research and said hangovers accounted for about £2bn in lost wages each year in the UK, mostly due to sickness absence....

FORGET aspirins, hairs of dogs and hot baths, the only sure way of avoiding a hangover is not to drink in the first place, according to a new study. Researchers led by Max Pittler of the Peninsular Medical School at Exeter University, surfed the Internet and combed medical databases to study a range of hangover cures from the traditional to the novel. Their research roamed from the humble aspirin to fructose, artichokes and even prickly pears but found no silver bullet. However, they did hold out some hope for the potential of borage, a bright blue herb with star-shaped flowers...

For those who indulge in a little too much of the grape, a botanical cousin, the prickly pear fruit, may be able to ease the aftereffects. Researchers have found that extracts from the skin of the prickly pear seem to help with the medical condition veisalgia - far better known as a hangover. Their report appears in the current issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine. The investigators gave 55 student volunteers the extract of the fruit, formally known as Opuntia ficus indica, and then encouraged them to drink an amount of alcohol "demonstrated to safely produce hangover in previous...

I watched the service on CSPAN to avoid the inane commentary and caught this too. And the Bubba wonders why he wasn't invited to speak.

Police officer cut phone lines to sleep off hangover An Austrian police officer has been fined £1,000 for cutting the emergency phone cables at a police station so he could sleep off his hangover. The officer admitted to being drunk when he started his night shift at the Leibnitz police station in Styria, according to Austrian daily Krone. He slashed the telephone cables and switched off the radio set so he would not be disturbed and left the police station unable to receive emergency calls for the entire night. He said: "I was drunk and wanted to have peace and...