We’ve been lucky lately with the good news surrounding coffee and even some positives directly talking about caffeine. Then there is the pre-holiday murmur, that coffee will not help the headache and other aches and pains coming from too much partying.

The news gets worse: Coffee may NOT help you sober up! Now we have a serious problem. What about all those mornings after when you went to a multitude of college parties? How did you make it back to the world by morning? Coffee, right.

The lead author wants to dispel the myth because he feels people will believe that they can drive now that they’ve had the magical elixir (coffee, caffeine). Or he worries they’ll think they are operating at full capacity in all matters because they’ve had the cup! The study believes the combination of alcohol and coffee  solves little and may actual create residual problems.

Note that the people in the study had the equivalent of eight cups of coffee.

That’s some serious alcohol-caffeine partnering!