Random Sputterings 3.3.2002

[matt]

Originally posted by kbarger
Well, that may be an official definition somewhere, but that wasn't how I'm using it. I don't consider an 18 yo having a couple beers "alcohol abuse". When you're talking about five or six drinks at a sitting, more than once a week, on a regular basis, well, in my book that's a problem. I've worked or done graduate study on enough campuses to be convinced that the "problem" is a) a lot worse than when I was in college 15 years ago and b) is not simply an anecdotal effort to justify increased budgets for certain departments.

I used to have six or more drinks a night, multiple times a week when I was 18, but I didn't, and still don't, think I had/have a drinking problem. It's the life of a college-aged social drinker.