Shine OnLas Vegas doctors on call to cure hangovers at home
We've all been there -- laying in bed the morning after a big night out, with a wine headache that just won't quit and a thirst that no amount of water can quench. We've wished, with all seriousness aside, that a doctor would show up at the door with a magical potion to fix us right up, knowing full-well that will never happen. Well, if you're vacationing in Las Vegas, that impossible dream has become a reality.
With introductory prices starting at $90, Hangover Heaven will pull its bus up to the front door of your hotel. Inside, you'll be fitted with an intravenous that will pump you full of FDA-approved vitamins, anti-inflammatories and anti-nausea medication, reports the Huffington Post UK. You'll be back to your old self in less than an hour, the company claims.
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What's more, the company's newest VIP service, for those who cannot possibly make it out to the bus stop, provides a real-life doctor who brings the hangover cure straight to your bedside.
One of the company's doctors, Jason Burke, tells the Huffington Post his response to the criticisms that this service could be encouraging people to go on drinking binges:
"I contend that people are going to drink to the point that they normally would. There is a certain level of inebriation that people like to attain when partying. After a few drinks, people really do not think about hangovers, but more about their level of intoxication."
"People who I have treated have not ended up becoming binge drinkers," he continues. "It generally has been the case that they lost track of how much they had to drink during the course of the night and ended up with a hangover."
Despite the company's FDA-approved concoction, doctors who aren't associated to the business aren't quite so sure that this service is a safe one. "The hangover bus doc is flying in dangerous territory," says Doctor Art Caplan, director the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, to MSNBC. "What if he deals with diabetics or epileptics or someone with some other high risk disease? If [that client] croaks, he is losing his license no matter what consent they sign."
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And why is Vegas the right place for this business? "People are here to vacation and forget their worries," Burke explains. "The purpose of Hangover Heaven is to give people their day of vacation back, rather than languishing in their hotel room because they accidentally drank too much."
A Hangover Heaven customer on the company's website vouches for the effects of the treatment: " My hangover is absolutely gone. I have zero hangover. No more nausea, no headache. I feel refreshed. I'm ready to go back out."
Whether it's fortunate or unfortunate for us that no similar services are currently available in Canada remains to be seen, but we'll just have to continue curing our hangovers the old-fashioned way: with a hefty dose of Advil, a 1-litre carton of coconut water and a Real Housewives marathon. Or, like a sensible person, we could simply consider drinking less.
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