Expert reveals reason we get 'hangxiety' after a booze binge

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Many people will be feeling a little tender today after the impact of last night's festivities take hold. From hangovers to ‘beer fear’, it’s the time of year that has people waking up the next morning vowing to never drink again.

Feelings of anxiety due to excessive alcohol consumption isn’t a new phenomenon. But the nickname ‘hangxiety’ has recently made its way into the Urban dictionary to explain feelings of boozy regrets.

For those who suffer with 'the fear', it will be refreshing to know that there is an actual scientific reason behind this, according to experts. READ MORE: Inside the dark and dangerous underground nightclubs of Manchester's lost 'Soho' Liz Burns, a lecturer of Mental Health Nursing at Salford University with a specialism in alcohol services, explained that these effects on the body are due to alcohol being a depressant rather than a stimulant drug.

She chairs Communities in Charge of Alcohol (CICA), a research project based in Greater Manchester which aims to reduce alcohol harm within the community.