Should colleges offer ‘hangover leaves’? Why it might or might not be probable

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover 
— Roger Ebert, American film critic, historian, journalist and author 
 

Does the statement confuse you? How much more confusing it could be for a person with a hangover? For the innocent or uninitiated, a hangover is the disagreeable physical aftereffects of drunkenness such as headaches or stomach disorder — usually felt several hours after cessation of drinking. Which means, the morning, the day-after or even the whole day. A blue-collar hangover worker manning a machine can adversely affect the quality and quantity of his output or he can even have a serious accident risking his limbs and life. For this reason, they are closely supervised and even sent home without wages.
But the white-collar workers are often pampered and are allowed to work from home where they can sip whiskey from a glass next to their computer and also smoke cigarettes. If worst comes to worst, they can take sick or casual leave, especially on Mondays after week-ends. It can also be sick leave supported by a doctor’s certificate. And a doctor is not supposed to moralise on binge drinking. Now the doctors can go to sleep without any moral pangs as the employers themselves are redeeming the hangover heroes as per a media report (BBC) excerpted below.

White-collar em­ploy­ees don’t have that prob­lem — their work­place now gives them ‘hang­over days’ for this rea­son. El­lie, a 19-year-old PR man­ager not only gets un­lim­ited days off, but her dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing agency also lets em­ploy­ees take hang­over days where they can work from home. “The perk has a lot in it,” El­lie told the BBC, “It is about hon­esty, it’s about peo­ple be­ing able to not lie to their man­agers.”
El­lie’s boss, Claire Cromp­ton, is the co-founder of The Au­dit Lab which is lo­cated close to Manch­ester. “We wanted to of­fer some­thing to younger mil­len­ni­als who typ­i­cally go out mid-week and do the pub quiz. My team book a hang­over day in ad­vance, if they know they are go­ing out,” Cromp­ton told the BBC.
Crit­ics say this prac­tice can en­cour­age binge-drink­ing among em­ploy­ees. Some take is­sue with la­belling it a ‘hang­over day’ rather than just call­ing it a work from home.

Char­i­ties, in­clud­ing Al­co­hol Change UK and Drinkaware say this prac­tice could en­cour­age binge drink­ing among em­ploy­ees who don’t have to worry about get­ting up for work the next day. Some college students are prone to binge drinking, especially during weekends. Should college managements be liberal and offer some days in a year as ‘hangover’ holidays — like the ubiquitous ‘sick leave’ or ‘casual leave’?