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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (2863)	10/16/2006 2:42:58 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10087

Yes, "binge drinking" is defined in the study DMA found as: one drink per day every day, or five or more drinks on one day per month. This includes 22% of the population. This group includes a range from those at the heavy end of social drinking to the confirmed alcoholic. Heavy drinking is defined as five or more drinks per day for five or more days per month. This includes less than 6% of the population. Virtually all of these people could easily tick off the check list which indicate they are alcoholics, as they almost certainly are. People like George W Bush and Kim Jong-il are/were members of an even more selective club with far heavier alcohol abuse. It is mistaken to believe they are not alcoholics. .

To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (2863)	10/16/2006 8:20:04 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 10087

I think that's a rather poor definition. "# A binge drinker is defined as a person who drank five or more drinks on the same occasion on at least one day in the past 30 days." So if you had 5 drinks 29 days ago your a binge drinker, but if it was 31 your are not? If you had 5 or more drinks once in your life but it was last week, now your a binge drinker? The definition might have been created in order to increase the number of people defined as binge drinkers. But even if it was a honest attempt to define and deal with the issue its a poor one. A binge drinker should be someone who regularly binges not someone who's done so once withing the past month. Also perhaps some adjustment for size, and possibly other factors in alcohol resistance should be considered. A 350 lb man who is used to alcohol should require a large number of drinks to be a binge than an 85 pound person.