Sadly, there's no hangover cure - despite the old folk remedies and the miracle cure commercials.

Alcohol is a poison and the liver converts it to acetaldehyde, another poison.

The liver can only break down the alcohol in one shot (or one beer) an hour. The more you drink, the more work the liver has to do.

Often, the liver has to "borrow" enzymes from other organs to help break down the alcohol. When that happens the toxins in the organs donating enzymes to the liver build up - since they're not being broken down - and cause that sickly hangover feeling.

Doctors say drinking more than four drinks in one sitting is binge drinking.

Social drinkers don't get hangovers.

Any docs on board correct me if I'm wrong in what I've been taught.

Time seems the only answer to the pain of a hangover.

Hair of the dog only postpones the inevitable.