German Courts Rule That Hangovers Are an Illness

[Prettypink513]

"The case landed before judges in Frankfurt when plaintiffs claimed a firm offering anti-hangover "shots" and drink powders to mix with water was making illegal health claims."

""By an illness, one should understand even small or temporary disruptions to the normal state or normal activity of the body" -- including the tiredness, nausea and headaches the company claimed its product could polish off, they added."

"In fact, doctors have long since coined the word "veisalgia" as a specialist medical term for the morning after the night before, the judges noted."

I'll drink to that! German court rules that hangovers are officially an 'illness'

The court ruling came as it found that a food company had violated a ban on supplements which claim to be hangover cures.

sg.news.yahoo.com

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

Self induced symptoms are an illness.... It may be medically correct, but it's still a dumb excuse.
You forgot the link @Prettypink513

 

[Prettypink513]

Self induced symptoms are an illness.... It may be medically correct, but it's still a dumb excuse.
You forgot the link @Prettypink513

Fudge! Thanks

 

[spiff]

Self induced symptoms are an illness.... It may be medically correct, but it's still a dumb excuse. @Prettypink513

Glad to hear someone else say this. Saying a condition is an "illness" has nothing to do with personal responsibility of the ill individual, although the media likes the spin it in this direction for clicks. This sounds like they just don't want unregulated meds out there that claim to prevent hangovers, and no one is saying you can call out of work for this "illness" and have any legal protection, nor saying it will be covered by insurance.

People always bitch that alcoholism is called a "disease" because they assume that means the patient is refusing personal responsibility, when in reality it just means that alcoholism very accurately fits the medical definition of the word disease.

No one bitches about heart disease though, which is frequently self-induced as well. Eating like a fatass every day seems like just another addiction to me, not sure why it's not considered to be on a similar level.

The media does love causing BS controversy with semantics, and I think this might be the case right here.

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

The media does love causing BS controversy with semantics,

Dang right. I estimate about 95% of the content!

 

[Sejanus]

Well what did you expect in a country where they pour beer on their f****** breakfast cereal?