Whether its a few too many glasses of wine after work or too many slices of pizza on the sofa at home, we've all ended up feeling worse for wear after over-indulging.
But perhaps none of us have ended up feeling as bad as Aimo Koivunen, a Finnish soldier who accidentally took a squad's-worth of Nazi methamphetamine pills while fleeing Soviet soldiers on skies during the Second World War.
Aimo hoped the pills would give him enough energy to escape the pursuing Red Army - which they did, though he also outran his own unit, got lost, and ended up spending two weeks skiing around the Arctic Circle while high out of his mind.
During that time he travelled a total of 250 miles including back through the middle of the Soviet camp, stepped on a landmine which blew his right foot off, and ended up half-naked eating a raw bird in a ditch before somehow being found alive.
Aimo Koivunen (left and right), a Finnish soldier during the Second World War, accidentally overdosed on Nazi meth pills while fighting the Soviets
The incredible story took place in March of 1944 when Finland, fighting a years-long on-off conflict with Russia over its eastern provinces, was in an alliance of convenience with Hitler's Germany.
Aimo, then 27 years old, was on day two of a three-day mission behind Soviet lines with a squad of fellow Finns and who been on the move almost non-stop when they ran into a Soviet patrol around 10am on March 18.
A firefight broke out and Amio's unit was forced to flee, skiing through knee-deep snow to avoid being encircled and captured.
At first they made good ground, but soon Aimo began falling behind. With his squad disappearing on the trail ahead and the Soviets getting closer, he knew he had to do something to tip the balance.
It was then that he took out a packet of Nazi Pervitin pills from his breast pocked - methamphetamine that was given to Hitler's troops to give them an edge in battle.
Aimo, a straight-laced kid who abhorred the idea of taking the pills, had been entrusted to carry the squad's whole supply - which he promptly tipped into his hand because it was too difficult to extract a single pill while wearing mittens.
In a moment of madness Aimo swallowed the whole handful and - within minutes - found he had more than enough energy to escape his Soviet pursuers.
Not only did he escape the Soviets, but he quickly overhauled his own squad. When they eventually caught up with him, they noticed something was badly wrong - Aimo was hallucinating and barely coherent.
Aimo had been entrusted with his entire squad's supply of Pervitin, a Nazi methamphetamine pill, which he accidentally took while trying to swallow one pill for energy
Concerned as much for their safety as his, the squad took away Aimo's ammunition. Shortly afterwards he suffered the first of what would become a series of prolonged blackouts. When he came to he was alone, unarmed, and badly disoriented.
Somehow he had managed to travel almost 40 miles from his last known position and was now lost in -15C temperatures with no idea how to get safely back to camp, while a squad's-worth of Nazi meth coursed through his system.
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