{"id":1898,"date":"2015-04-06T00:42:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T06:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2015-04-06T01:24:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T07:24:40","slug":"how-much-would-you-pay-for-in-home-hangover-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/how-much-would-you-pay-for-in-home-hangover-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Would You Pay for In-Home Hangover Treatment?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a thing<\/a>:\u00a0 Services that will send a health professional\u00a0to your home, office\u00a0or hotel room to treat your hangover for anywhere from $175 to $269.<\/p>\n

Ridiculous?\u00a0 That was my first reaction.\u00a0 But in certain limited situations I can see justifying the expense.<\/p>\n

There seem to be about a half-dozen of these services operating in big cities around the country,\u00a0and they all take roughly the same approach.\u00a0 The nurse shows up at the time and place appointed by the client and sets up an IV drip.\u00a0 What it contains — vitamins, pain and\/or nausea medication — depends on how bad off you are and how much you want to pay.\u00a0 Treatment lasts up to an hour, and while not an instant cure by all accounts is the next best thing.\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n

Some services also offer treatment at their home offices and by mobile bus for a reduced price.\u00a0\u00a0But it seems to me if you can\u00a0pull yourself together\u00a0to get out of the house in the first place, your hangover can’t be all that bad.<\/p>\n

Critics argue<\/a> that IV treatment for a hangover “is like using a bulldozer to do something you can do with a shovel…\u00a0if a person is capable of drinking liquids by mouth there is no reason for an IV.”\u00a0 True enough, but if your hangovers are anything like mine, they\u00a0hunch on your back and scream for an endless river of water, sports drinks and juice,\u00a0and will not be sated until the end of the day.\u00a0 It all comes down to whether you have the leisure time to give the monkey all that he requires, or if you have other things to do — and how much you’re willing to pay to buy those hours back.<\/p>\n

This is what the marketers call a “luxury service.”\u00a0 But sometimes, like a great single malt or a special wine, luxuries are worth the price.\u00a0 I can envision someday having a\u00a0blowout last night in Vegas, then summoning “Hangover Heaven<\/a>” to my hotel room to endure the flight out next morning.<\/p>\n

Sadly,\u00a0in-home hangover treatment right now is only available in a handful of cities like Vegas, New York and LA.\u00a0 Like home booze-delivery before it, though,\u00a0don’t be surprised to\u00a0eventually\u00a0see it arrive in all major cities across the country.<\/p>\n

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It’s a thing:\u00a0 Services that will send a health professional\u00a0to your home, office\u00a0or hotel room to treat your hangover for anywhere from $175 to $269. Ridiculous?\u00a0 That was my first reaction.\u00a0 But in certain limited situations I can see justifying the expense. There seem to be about a half-dozen of these services operating in big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":1899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[605,367,604,606,251,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}