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The Center For Disease Control And Prevention reports that binge drinking is the most common pattern of excessive alcohol use in the United States.
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism defines binge drinking as a pattern of drinking that brings a person’s blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to 0.08 grams percent or above. This typically happens when men consume 5 or more drinks, and when women consume 4 or more drinks, in about 2 hours.
Strangely enough, most people who binge drink are not alcohol dependent.
More at the CDC Fact Sheet
In my younger years, from age 16 and into my twenties I drank heavily, indulging in binge drinking and late-night partying to a startling excess, then tapering off after I married and we had children. My last glass of beer was served to me in 1983 at an outdoor cafe on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, and my last drink of alcohol of any kind (it was a Screwdriver) was also in the 1980s, the day before my daughter was married -- at the bar of the motel where we were staying in Rome NY.
That was around thirty years ago.
(Then I quit smoking in 1985, April 12 at twelve noon.)
(And I don't chase after women, either.)
(Still enjoy looking, though.)
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Did You Know . . .?
Although college students commonly binge drink, 70% of binge drinking episodes involve adults age 26 years and older
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HISTORICAL EVENT
In his departing speech, Washington said: "Having now finished the work assigned to me, I retire from the great theatre of action; and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take any leave of all the employments of public life."
General Washington's respite proved extremely brief. He was unanimously elected to the first of two terms as president of the United States in 1788.
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WORD FOR TODAY
alcoholism
noun
- an addiction to the consumption of alcoholic liquor or the mental illness and compulsive behavior resulting from alcohol dependency.
Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, personal relationships, and social standing. It is medically considered a disease, specifically an addictive illness.
--Wikipedia
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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
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She was featured alongside Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder in the 1989 comedy See No Evil, Hear No Evil, and as Hulk Hogan's love interest, Samantha N. Moore, in the wrestling film No Holds Barred (1989). She had leading roles in Roger Corman's Black Scorpion (1995) (she later starred in and co-produced a sequel, Black Scorpion II: Aftershock (1997)), and The Last Seduction II (1999).
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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
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"- an addiction to the consumption of alcoholic liquor or the mental illness and compulsive behavior resulting from alcohol dependency."
ReplyDelete- or the mental illness and compulsive behavior that LEADS to alcohol dependency.
I had not thought of that, Anthony. But I will now. Thanks for the insight.
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