BINGE drinking is dangerous to health - something doctors have been warning for a long time. But what if there we a pill to counteract those harms ? 1 Binge drinking is harmful - but a drug that could counteract that could one day exist Credit: Alamy Potentially, one day, there will be, according to new research. A team at The Ohio State University College of Medicine looked into a possible way to prevent ‘holiday heart syndrome ’ - when people develop dangerous heart arrhythmias after boozing during celebrations like Christmas.
Lead author of the study Dr Saugat Khanal said: "Around the holidays, opportunities for celebration – often accompanied by heavy drinking – occur during a brief period of time. "Unfortunately, this sometimes sends revelers, even those with no previous heart condition, to the hospital with a racing or abnormally beating heart. “Repeated binge drinking can lead to serious arrhythmias.
"This includes atrial fibrillation (AFib), which is the most common type of arrhythmia. "AFib can raise the risk of stroke and heart failure. About one-third of new AFib diagnoses are related to alcohol use.
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