Aussie hangovers cost 2.6 million days

A new report has found hangovers account for more than 2.6 million work days, costing more than $430 million each year.

The study also found it is not the long-term heavy drinkers who are the sick leave culprits, but infrequent drinkers who cannot cope.

The Flinders University study, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, looked at more than 13,500 Australian workers and found the extent and cost of alcohol-related absenteeism was far greater than first previously thought.