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- Title: Classifying Risky-Drinking College Students: Another Look at the Two-Week Drinker-Type Categorization * (Report)
- Author : Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 227 KB
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HEAVY EPISODIC DRINKING, or binge drinking, defined by Wechsler and colleagues (1994) as the consumption of five or more drinks in one sitting for men and four or more drinks in one sitting for women, has sparked attention among researchers. Despite widespread public exposure after the release of the results of the College Alcohol Study (CAS; Wechsler et al., 1994), many have presented arguments against the term "binge drinking," arguing that "binge" inaccurately represents the behavior of college students (Lederman et al., 2000) and refers to a prolonged period of drinking--for example, "going on a 3-day binge" (Milgram and Anderson, 2000). Additionally, others report that students who consume five/four drinks may never actually reach dangerous blood alcohol concentration (BAC) levels (Beirness et al., 2004; Lange and Voas, 2001; Perkins et al., 2001). Despite the arguments against the term "binge drinking," researchers in the field of college student drinking have attempted to categorize college student drinkers based on the number of drinking occasions in the past 2 weeks that they consumed five/four or more drinks in one sitting (Wechsler and Austin, 1998; Wechsler and Nelson, 2001; Wechsler et al., 1994, 2000). Based on this time period and using the binge-drinking terminology, four categories of drinker type have been defined as follows: nondrinker (student who has not consumed alcohol in the past year), nonbinge drinker (student who consumed alcohol in the past year but did not consume five/four drinks or more in one sitting during the past 2 weeks), binge drinker (student who has consumed five/four drinks in one sitting one or two times in the past 2 weeks), and frequent binge drinker (student who has consumed five/four drinks in one sitting three or more times in the past 2 weeks). Although many have presented arguments against the term "binge drinking," there is no research to date assessing or justifying the use of this 2-week period.