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"drinking a can of <5% ABV beer ... per inning" is binge drinking: From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binge_drinking#Definitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by gwbas1c 1y ago
"drinking a can of <5% ABV beer ... per inning" is binge drinking:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binge_drinking#Definitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binge_drinking#Definitions
> the term has been described in academic research to mean consuming five or more standard drinks (male), or four or more drinks (female),[12] over a two-hour period.
> Drinking too much alcohol one time does not a problem make
When I was in college, a lot of people would define alcoholism in their heads so that they didn't call themselves alcoholics, when in fact they were exhibiting textbook alcoholism. (Not that I have a perfect past myself.)
Needless to say, "a beer an inning" isn't the kind of behavior that I will publicly glorify; nor will I try to handwave it away as "not a problem."
- arolihas 1y ago5 drinks in 2 hours once in a blue moon isn't that bad. It's not a problem.
- CivBase 1y agoA single session of binge drinking does not an alcoholic make. An "alcoholic" is defined by their regular abuse of alcohol, not a single instance of binge drinking. Binge drinking can obviously be a symptom of alcoholism, but IMO it's not appropriate to declare people you don't know are alcoholics based on a comment about an theoretical instance of binge drinking.
- brudgers 1y agoA baseball season has a minimum of 162 games. Even if you play one-beer-per-inning only 1 in 20 games (5% of the time) and only when watching your team, that’s more than once a month for the six month regular season. Alcohol causes problems besides alcoholism.