June 28, 2012 in alcohol rehab, alcoholism intervention, Drug Abuse
Binge drinking has a reputation for being the wild cousin of alcohol abuse. You blackout. You neglect duties. You stop working. You drink nonstop. You waste cash on expensive and cheap drinks alike. It often plays out as a dramatic Hollywood movie in people’s heads. While alcohol abuse intervention is important for kinds of alcoholics, it is even more so for those who do binge drinking.
The portrait most people have of binge drinking due to novels and movies is for the most part accurate. It is a period when the substance abuser frequently becomes intoxicated again and again and does indeed stop other parts of their life to do so, such as neglecting work and family duties. Clinics typically use this description as their prime definition for what is binge drinking.
But what exactly constitutes a “binge?” In Sweden, doctors classify it as drinking half of a bottle of alcohol of any kind or two wine bottles in a single instance. However, Italy has a different idea, claiming that drink eight alcoholic beverages was okay and even normal. For the United Kingdom, it’s capped at eleven drinks on a single occasion, and for the United States, it’s five for men and four for women since alcohol penetrates the blood stream of women quicker than it does for a man, and thus affecting them faster. But if woman drank four drinks of sat wine and over a long period of time, such as a celebratory dinner, doctors could technically call her an official binge drinker. The various definitions show a bigger problem though. Because it is a hard to define disease with parameters constantly fluctuating, alcoholism intervention and residential drug treatment is harder to provide.
More real and practical definitions are starting to take hold. Taking off from the point that a binge is any instance where many alcoholic drinks are consumed at one instance over a period of time—many being defined to suit the specific person binging—some doctors and others in the medical community now say binge drinking is also about drinking that ends in detrimental acts and behavior. With the core of binge drinking stared to be more easily defined, alcohol addiction treatment is getting easier to provide for those who binge.
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Lucious said on June 29, 2012
I am glad to see that some quality resources are appearing for drug addicts and alcoholics on the internet. Many people are suffering around the Nation from addiction and are in need of treatment. Check out http://www.drugtreatmentus.com/. They have some good information on how to get help.
tony lee said on July 24, 2012
As much as everyone likes to drink and tries to drink they need to remember to do it responsible. You have to be responsible with the choices you make and the amount of drinking you do. Everyone has a limit and you need to know exactly what that limit is. An intervention for binge drinking might be a good idea if things get out of control.
Peter King said on July 30, 2012
Binge drinking is one of the ways alcohol dependence can creep up on a person. This Japanese proverb is worth remembering: “First the man takes a drink; then the drink takes a drink; then the drink takes the man.”
Joanna said on August 9, 2012
Binge drinking is perhaps worst than any type of addiction because you never realize that you are addicted to it. You keep on downing peg after peg only to bring disaster in your life. It has worse effects than alcoholism and needs treatment too.
Tim said on August 9, 2012
Most people do not have any clear idea about binge drinking. In the initial period they take it as normal drinking and slowly get into its clutches. It often gets too late to realize the harm they have done to them.
Dustin said on August 9, 2012
We need to define binge drinking properly so that medical assistance can be provided easily. We need to have specific treatment plan for binge drinking and encourage people to come ahead and get the treatment.
Kelly said on August 11, 2012
People really do need to be made aware of how dangerous and addictive drinking really is and need to acknowledge their limits. Drinking can definitely become out of control and if it does, there must be proper medical treatment for it.