"Health & Medical News"

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Paying substance abuse treatment providers for results, not services, may lead to improved quality of care, according to the first published study of a novel performance-based contracting system implemented by the State of Delaware in 2002.

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The holidays are the hangover season — liquor companies estimate they make 25 percent of their profits between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. But researchers warn that there is no real cure for the hangover other than limiting alcohol consumption, Newsweek reported Dec. 12.

Veisalgia — the medical term for the hangover — is partly a “kind of mini withdrawal” caused by dropping blood-alcohol levels, partly the result of the impact of alcohol on the body, experts say. The worst moments of the morning-after hangover occur when the body’s blood-alcohol level hits zero, but the stimulating chemicals released by the brain in response to drinking remain, causing an increased pulse rate, nausea, tremors, and heightened sensitivity to light and sound.

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A Scottish man who binged on beer for four days was rewarded with a hangover that took six months to cure.

Fox News reported Oct. 1 that the 37-year-old man came to a hospital emergency room complaining of blurred vision and a pounding headache. Doctors later discovered that he had consumed 60 pints of beer over a four-day period.

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