Binge drinking: risici, konsekvenser og årsager

First of all I would ask myself, what is binge drinking? What’s so bad about it and what are the consequences?

Binge drinking used to mean drinking heavily over several days. Now, however, the term refers to the heavy consumption of alcohol over a short period of time. In the United States, it generally means 5 or more drinks in a row for men and 4 drinks for a woman in a row. Simply put, binge drinking just means to get drunk. In the United Kingdom, binge drinking is commonly defined as consuming 11 or more drinks on an occasion. This is more than double what is considered binge drinking in the USA.

Binge drinking is very dangerous for the drinker and the people around them. I could come up with like, hundreds of different risks and consequences, but here are a few:

Not using protection when having sex

Getting hurt or injured

Missing work

Getting in trouble with the police

Alcohol poison

Those were 5 of the many risks and here are another 5 for people around the drinker:

Having an argument

Property damaged

Insulted or humiliated

Being hit or pushed

Sleep interrupted

There are hundreds of more reasons, but I’ve just picked out those because I think they are the most important and they are the biggest consequences if you a “binge drinker”. People can come up with all sorts of stupid reasons to why binge drinking is acceptable.