Sozzled, Falling About - Then Four Hours Later Feeling Fine!
We try out the latest 'cure' for hangovers…all in the name of research

By Louisa Gregson

Remember the days of the school disco?

The dancing, the flirting, the music…the smuggling in bottles of cider to be furtively drunk away from the teachers' eyes - usually somewhere classy like a toilet cubicle. And of course the next day hangover, when you had to pretend to be "coming down with something." Well, if only Chaser-Freedom from Hangovers tablets existed back then.

On Saturday I was transported back in time as I donned a school uniform and hit the dance floor at a school disco night held in Sheffield's trendy Po Na Na. But this time things were different…yes, I could drink freely in the bar area but I was also armed with my little packet of Chaser pills - a new product from Natural Focus that claims to stop hangovers before they start.

John Hanley, MD of Natural Focus, based in Bawtry, Doncaster, said Chaser exists thanks to a scientist discovering a natural product that absorbs and disposes of harmful elements in beer, wine and spirits that cause suffering the day after. He said the caplets are clinically tested, so are totally safe.

Chaser works by taking two caplets with your first drink, then two more caplets every two to three hours, or four to six drinks thereafter. All in the name of research I washed down two pills with a bottle of peach Archers, which was quickly followed by three bottles more and sometime later joined by three bottles of Smirnoff Ice. I know I was drunk - why else would I have attempted to moonwalk through the bar, staged a one-woman crusade through the crowds to dance to Spandau Ballet and laughed so hard at my friends body popping that I had to sit down on the floor?

So after a measly four hours sleep I woke up expecting to feel horrible - and felt fine. My arms and legs ached a bit - but that could have been the moonwalking and eighties dancing - I felt a teensy bit rough - but I only had four hours sleep - headache, nausea, the feeling I wanted to die if ever so much as looked at a drink again - not a bit of it! I was amazed at how well I felt the next day.