The Hangover Buster folks just hung up on me. Some delightful person convinced me that I needed to experience their product, so they sent a box of three wafers in the mail. These wafers are specially formulated to rehydrate the club-goer who may have ordered one too many.

After looking over the ingredients and tasting the fizzy water — you drop the wafers in water and drink it down before you put your woozy head on the pillow — I couldn’t help but think that these wafers deliver pretty much the same thing as a sports drink. They have vitamins A, B-12, C,  some caffeine, glutamine, white willow bark (aspirin?) and a spot of ginseng.

When I shared my thoughts with the publicist, I was lectured about how I am not a scientist. The person on the phone was correct about that, but I still don’t understand why I’d want Hangover Buster for $5.99 per 3-pack instead of a tall glass of water. If you’d like to do a little scientific research of your own, go to www.hangoverbuster.com.