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Preventing Hangovers
Aired January 01, 2004 - 06:51 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It's the morning after for a lot of us. Got your head in your hands? Well, hold out one of those hands and take this pill from our resident hangover fighter, Doctor Jeanne Moos.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Normally pills and booze don't mix.
GREG KOENIG, CEO, FIRST CALL: All three gone and now I'm ready for another five, six beers.
MOOS: Long before Last Call, the idea is to take First Call to prevent hangovers, that miserable condition portrayed in movies.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM "THE THIN MAN")
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What hit me?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The last martini.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MOOS: Celebrated in song.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I've got the worst hangover ever.
MOOS: Obviously he didn't take Hangover Helper or Drink Ease or Good Morning, made from volcanic rock. Why should your stomach feel like a volcano when there are pills like First Call to pop?
KOENIG: First Call is compromised of artichoke and sarsaparilla, which is what the prime component in root beer is.
MOOS: But hangover pills are hard for this liver specialist to swallow.
DR. HOWARD WORMAN, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: It's probably safe, but there's no evidence that it's effective.
MOOS: Tell that to those who've taken it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Because it definitely does lessen the effect of a hangover.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I tried it once and it definitely work. It definitely helps with a hangover.
KOENIG: Tomorrow I won't even know I drank.
MOOS: Here at the Pig & Whistle in San Francisco, they sell First Call alongside the pretzels and peanuts.
(on camera): And the deal is you're supposed to take three before you drink...
(voice-over): And three more after.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I am so hung over.
MOOS: The makers of another hangover pill, Chaser, have started running commercials.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM CHASER COMMERCIAL)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How come you feel so good? You drank more than I did.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I took Chaser, remember?
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MOOS: The ingredients in Chaser include activated charcoal, something hospitals use to absorb overdoses.
Chaser funded a double blind placebo study that suggests it is effective. Another pill is called RU-21, also known as the KGB pill because the KGB supposedly tested it, hoping in vain it would enable agents to drink yet remain sharp.
For more traditional remedies, there's always "The Hangover Handbook" with 101 cures, from the raw egg burp to the Kamikaze cure, wearing a surgical mask soaked in sake. And then there's that old standby.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Usually a Bloody Mary, a spicy one, and my dog likes them, too. He sticks his big old snout right in there and it's all spices and then he goes.
MOOS: Dogs aren't the only ones who don't get hung up on hangovers.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have never had a hangover in my life because I've never stopped drinking.
MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: So that's the secret.
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Aired January 1, 2004 - 06:51 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It's the morning after for a lot of us. Got your head in your hands? Well, hold out one of those hands and take this pill from our resident hangover fighter, Doctor Jeanne Moos.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Normally pills and booze don't mix.
GREG KOENIG, CEO, FIRST CALL: All three gone and now I'm ready for another five, six beers.
MOOS: Long before Last Call, the idea is to take First Call to prevent hangovers, that miserable condition portrayed in movies.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM "THE THIN MAN")
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What hit me?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The last martini.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MOOS: Celebrated in song.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I've got the worst hangover ever.
MOOS: Obviously he didn't take Hangover Helper or Drink Ease or Good Morning, made from volcanic rock. Why should your stomach feel like a volcano when there are pills like First Call to pop?
KOENIG: First Call is compromised of artichoke and sarsaparilla, which is what the prime component in root beer is.
MOOS: But hangover pills are hard for this liver specialist to swallow.
DR. HOWARD WORMAN, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: It's probably safe, but there's no evidence that it's effective.
MOOS: Tell that to those who've taken it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Because it definitely does lessen the effect of a hangover.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I tried it once and it definitely work. It definitely helps with a hangover.
KOENIG: Tomorrow I won't even know I drank.
MOOS: Here at the Pig & Whistle in San Francisco, they sell First Call alongside the pretzels and peanuts.
(on camera): And the deal is you're supposed to take three before you drink...
(voice-over): And three more after.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I am so hung over.
MOOS: The makers of another hangover pill, Chaser, have started running commercials.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM CHASER COMMERCIAL)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How come you feel so good? You drank more than I did.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I took Chaser, remember?
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MOOS: The ingredients in Chaser include activated charcoal, something hospitals use to absorb overdoses.
Chaser funded a double blind placebo study that suggests it is effective. Another pill is called RU-21, also known as the KGB pill because the KGB supposedly tested it, hoping in vain it would enable agents to drink yet remain sharp.
For more traditional remedies, there's always "The Hangover Handbook" with 101 cures, from the raw egg burp to the Kamikaze cure, wearing a surgical mask soaked in sake. And then there's that old standby.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Usually a Bloody Mary, a spicy one, and my dog likes them, too. He sticks his big old snout right in there and it's all spices and then he goes.
MOOS: Dogs aren't the only ones who don't get hung up on hangovers.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have never had a hangover in my life because I've never stopped drinking.
MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: So that's the secret.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
