Hangover Heaven: Keeping the Party Going in Las Vegas
Hangover Heaven: Keeping the Party Going in Las Vegas
Las Vegas is a party town. But there’s no better killjoy than a hangover. Enter Jason Burke, anesthesiologist and entrepreneurial party-saver extraordinaire. His bender-busting bus guarantees to keep the party going with hangover cures.
Brian is actually supposed to be boarding a helicopter in three hours for a tour of the Grand Canyon. But at the moment he’s sitting in a reclining chair in the back of a converted bus, groaning with an IV in his arm. “Just a while back, he was still dancing on tables,” says his brother Zack.
Zack is sitting with his cousin in the rear part of the bus. His eyes are squinted and puffy, and he has an IV in his arm, as well. Brian is supposed to get married in a month, so he and his buddies traveled to Las Vegas a day earlier to celebrate before he makes his vows. They are getting the full package: concert, dance club, strip club — and buckets of booze.
Zack says his brother had 12 Martini Colas, the last of which came just four hours back. If worse comes to worst, they’ll have to cancel the helicopter tour and the visit to the shooting range. But that would be no fun. “Our last hope is the hangover truck,” he says.
The hangover truck is the brainchild of Jason Burke, a 42-year-old anesthesiologist who worked in Las Vegas hospitals for seven years before going out on his own and starting up his “Hangover Heaven” practice. Since then, he’s been driving his massive, converted bus up and down the Strip treating people who’ve drunk themselves senseless.