Voorbeelden van binge drinker

• He was known to be a binge drinker.

• Ten percent of binge drinkers become alcohol dependent.

• Binge drinkers are most likely to have begun while in high school.

• Is it worse for your health to drink little and often, or to be a binge drinker who parties at the weekend?

• Life was far from perfect, though, as her father was a binge drinker and her parents often fought about money.

• Pilots of targeted screening and brief interventions, which will help to identify people with alcohol problems, including binge drinkers, and offer them help and advice to cut their alcohol consumption.

• Most binge drinkers are not familiar with the risks associated with binge drinking.

• Impairments in impulse control in binge drinkers, which is more prominent in female binge drinkers, is due to dysfunction of the frontal lobe.

• Impulse control is also impaired in binge drinkers, especially female binge drinkers.

• Time (magazine) ran a cover story about female binge drinkers.

• Similar to binge drinkers, individuals suffering from alcohol dependence develop changes to neurotransmitter systems, which occur as a result of kindling and sensitization during withdrawal.

• This suggests that impaired prefrontal cortex function may occur at an early age in binge drinkers.

• Binge drinkers were found to have significantly higher scores of dysfunctional impulsivity compared to control groups.

• Additionally, immediate and delayed recall of verbal and visual information is impaired; conversely, semantic organizational ability is better in binge drinkers compared to non-binge drinkers.

• Impairments in spatial working memory and pattern recognition tasks also have been found in heavy binge drinkers.

• Similar to people who have been detoxified multiple times from alcohol, binge drinkers show a higher rate of emotional disturbance.

• This brain damage increases the risk of abnormalities in mood and cognitive abilities, increases the risk of dementia and additionally binge drinkers have an increased risk of developing chronic alcoholism.