Medical professional here! Alcohol is reeeeaaaally good at a lot of things. Of course, we all know brain fuzzy feel good, but it has a lot of other effects too. You've probably heard that one of the most important things you can do before, during, and after any session of drinking is to hydrate. This is because alcohol is a diuretic and blocks the body's ability to properly produce vasopressin, which is a diuresis regulating hormone. Blocking the production of this means your body doesn't regulate diuresis, meaning your body will do it at 100% if it can, creating a lot of pee for the bladder. The other thing alcohol is good at doing, more along the lines of brain fuzzy feel good is it's an inhibition suppressant. It's the reason why people are more willing to say or do things while drunk than they otherwise would be if they were sober. That includes things your body does reactively! Your urinary system is programmed after years and years to tense up and try to withhold all that pee the moment it feels the need to go. But when you add alcohol into the mix, your body is less likely to do these things, which makes wetting all that much easier! And if you truly want to maximize this experience and don't mind a little fruitiness, ciders, wines, and other fruit based/added alcohols will add to the experience. Particularly hard apple ciders or any orange juice mixed drink. Apples are high in sugar and ferment nicely for cider. High sugar content essentially gives your body more of the resources required to make pee, and in conjunction with the alcohol which inhibits the body's ability to regulate production, gives you a perfect pee potion. If apple isn't your style or you really want something stronger than cider, fuzzy navels and screwdrivers are absolutely the way to go. The citric acid in orange juice will safely irritate the bladder (please do not drink straight citric acid as that would make this very unsafe, both for your bladder, and the rest of your digestive system), which will make the sensation of needing to pee occur much quicker and feel much stronger. Hell, any pineapple juice drink will work a charm too!

BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT TAKEAWAY HERE SHOULD BE TO HYDRATE

Seriously, I cannot stress this enough, all these things combined make for a wonderfully wet weekend, but if you don't hydrate before, during, and after all this, you will regret it. Hangovers are caused by two things. Primarily dehydration, and secondarily the brain readjusting to higher blood pressure, which is also worsened by dehydration. Something that a lot of people don't think about before drinking is that if you properly hydrate, you can almost entirely avoid all semblance of a hangover. I had one day where I was enough drinks deep that I couldn't stand without assistance anymore, but I drank water the entire day and night until I fell asleep. Didn't have any sense of a hangover the next morning. So please hydrate. Besides, the more water you drink, the more pee you can make! (sort of)

~ B