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>> […] sometimes having as many as 20 drinks at a time > Hmmmm that's not a lot when your talking problem drinking as an addiction. Twenty drinks at a time is
by Freak_NL 9y ago
>> […] sometimes having as many as 20 drinks at a time
> Hmmmm that's not a lot when your talking problem drinking as an addiction.
Twenty drinks at a time is not a lot? Don't most people draw the line way before that? In the Netherlands drinking more than three drinks a day is considered problematic drinking (for men); I wager that this won't differ that much around the globe.
- DanBC 9y ago20 drinks at one sitting is a lot, and it's firmly in the problem and harmful drinking end of risky alcohol use. People with alcoholism can drink a lot more than that. A UK unit of alcohol is 10 ml of pure alcohol. You'd consider inpatient residential rehab for someone drinking 30 units per day. There are roughly 40 units in a litre of spirits in the UK. https://pathways.nice.org.uk/pathways/alcohol-use-disorders/assisted-alcohol-withdrawal#content=view-node%3Anodes-inpatient-or-residential-programme https://pathways.nice.org.uk/pathways/alcohol-use-disorders/...
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoAnd just to be clear, it's rare that what people call "a drink" is only one unit. What someone casually counts as "20 drinks" could easily be 50+ units.
- psyc 9y ago20 drinks is excessive by any standard I ever heard of.
- aaron695 9y agoThere a difference between healthy living or occasional dangerous behaviour compared to an addiction that needs individual medical intervention. I find it a strange case for a male person with an addiction problem (which is what we are talking, AA style intervention) thinking 'sometimes as many as' 20 drinks to be a statement of supprise.
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