Hangover Medicine | What’s the difference between hangover and withdrawal?

3 Responses to “What’s the difference between hangover and withdrawal?”

1. Marty C

   Hang over is the morning after, when you are dehydrated and suffering from doing.. Withdrawl occurs because you are not doing, and your body is missing it. Addiction.

2. Amanda T

   Ok, when you have a hangover, what has actually happened is that your brain has dehydrated while you were drinking, you need to rehydrate your brain by drinking pleanty of water. If you do this before you go to bed, you will most likely get even drunker, and perhaps throw up…so that’s not really good, if you drink water when you wake up, it is better but harder to get down.
   When you go through withdrawl, it is a chemical imbalance in your body that you have caused by taking whatever you are withdrawing from. It actually can bind to receptors in your brain and cause your body to crave the drug…

3. doshiealan

   Actually no. Withdrawal implies the attempted termination of a foregoing (sometimes) prolonged period of addiction. A hangover is usually a one-off event following a brief over-indulgence in alcoholic drinks.

   People who are addicted to alcohol, tend not to suffer from bad hangovers, otherwise they would stop drinking right there and then. They do, however, suffer from withdrawal symptoms such as Delirium Tremens (DT’s), and other nasties, once they are denied alcohol for a couple of days or more.

   Not only that, but alcohol addiction, like all other addictions, never goes away. Once you become an alcoholic, you will always be an alcoholic, even though you may have managed to stop drinking. That is the true curse of any addiction. It only requires one slip, or failure of discipline, and you are off again on the ghastly road to early death.

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