Is alcohol still in your system if you're hung over?

Question

Basically: Can I take my prescription Naproxen pills tomorrow afternoon if I get drunk tonight for my bro's birthday?

Answer 1

Yep. Just eat a meal before you get drunk, and be sure to drink a lot of water as well while you're drinking and the morning after.

Oh... and give your car keys to someone else, as well as keeping some cab fare on you.

Answer 2

Hung over is really a state of dehydration--alcohol inhibits anti-diuretic hormone, which means you will not retain proper water in your body--and it is also sleep deprivation. When crashing your brain does not have the same brain wave activity as someone who is sleeping; it is a passed out state more similar to being unconscious rather than sleeping.

As far as still having alcohol in your system: Through oxidation, alcohol is detoxified and removed from the blood, preventing the alcohol from accumulating and destroying cells and organs. A minute amount of alcohol escapes metabolism and is excreted unchanged in the breath and in urine. Until all the alcohol consumed has been metabolized, it is distributed throughout the body, affecting the brain and other tissues. Generally the first two hours are the most potent, 4hrs is about a 50% reduction and 8 hrs will just about be sufficient for most people to be back to normal alcohol wise, the hangover issues described above may affect you much longer.

P.S. Blind studies with university students where they switch all beverages to non-alcoholic still cause wild drunken like activities including slurred speech, wobbly wild uninhibited action, and reported hang-overs. The point: when your drunk you are really drunk but true partying is all in your head. Get wild not drunk next time and give your body a break.

Answer 3

Alcohol leaves the blood stream at the rate of aproximately one drink per hour. Let's look at an example. Say you have been drinking most of the night and it's 1am. You are going to close the bar down with your friends and you have about 4 drinks still in your system at 1am. Now you drink 4 more drinks from 1 till 2am. In that hour you lost one drink due to time. Now you go home with 7 drinks in you system. You sleep from 3 till 7am and get up to get ready to go for the day. Since you stopped drinking five hours has passed and you now have 2 drinks still in your system. Conclusion, you still have alcohol in your system.
This of course is assuming that each drink you have onlyhas one shot in them. If you are drinking Long Islands all night then effectively you could be drunk untill 5pm the next day.

Do your calculations and time your perscription accordingly.

Answer 4

There will still be amounts in your system. It really just depends on how much you take in.

My recommendation is take it easy with the alcohol, have a litte, and you should ok.

However, if you can remember what you did the night before in the morning, I would not recommend taking the pill

Answer 5

Yes, alcohol is still in your system if you're hung over. That's why you're hung over.

If you stop drinking no later than 1 am and start drinking water and don't take them any earlier than 1 pm, I would say you should be ok. Also, make sure you eat before you take your meds.

Answer 6

Yes, alcohol will still be in your system. Take your meds as late as you can, but it's not good to miss your schedule by too much.

Answer 7

Depending how late you drink till id wait at lease 12 -16 hrs before i would take any medication.

But in your case since you even have to ask that question by all means take it while your drinking

Answer 8

You can still get charged with impaired driving the morning after when you are hung over.

Answer 9

no the alcohol would still be in your system dont take the risk

Answer 10

yes you can take them tomorrow because they wont pass through your liver at the same time therefore they will not be processed together! have fun at the party....drink one for me!