They just figured this out???

[Liberator TJ1984]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Heavy social drinkers show the same pattern of brain damage as hospitalized alcoholics -- enough to impair day-to-day functioning, U.S. researchers said Wednesday.
Brain scans show clear damage, and tests of reading, balance and other function show people who drink more than 100 drinks a month have some problems, the researchers said.
"Socially functioning heavy drinkers often do not recognize that their level of drinking constitutes a problem that warrants treatment," the researchers, at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and the University of California San Francisco, wrote in their report.
"The enrollment criterion for heavy drinkers was the consumption of more than an average of 100 alcoholic drinks per month for men over 3 years before the study (80 drinks for women)," they wrote in the report, published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.
One drink is usually defined as a serving of spirits, a glass of wine or a can or bottle of beer.
And I thought a 12pk. a day was Normal
I must be Twice as F'd Up

[Jordy]

So 100 drinks in a weekend would be bad?

[78Eliminator]

That's just 3.3 a day. Not a lot. Man, that's it, I quit. Brains are all I "thought" I had.....

[Jordy]

Originally posted by 78Eliminator
That's just 3.3 a day. Not a lot. Man, that's it, I quit. Brains are all I "thought" I had.....
I was thinking more along the lines of a river weekend. But even on non river weekends, that's 25 per weekend.

[HCS]

I'm socially O.D'ed.
Guess my brain should be studied.

[78Eliminator]

To be honest, when I have not had a drink in several weeks, I can really tell the difference on a cognitive level. Also feel a lot better physically.

[Dave C]

depends on what you mean by the term "problem"

[Dribble]

Of all the things I've ever lost, I think I miss my mind the most.

[AdrenelineOD]

I have noticed since I left NY Im dont spend every hour not working, drunk. I can think about things now like, If I untie my belly button will my legs fall off?

[HCS]

Originally posted by 78Eliminator
To be honest, when I have not had a drink in several weeks, I can really tell the difference on a cognitive level. Also feel a lot better physically.
You just talked me into drying out for a couple weeks and you
weren't even trying to. Think I'll start tomorrow.