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Study: For Many, Benefits of Binge Drinking Outway Negatives
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason May 29, 2012 03:04am |
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| News Date | Friday, February 10, 2012 09:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Frequent binge drinking can do a great deal of damage to your body: impaired memory and brain activity, impaired impulse control, etc. (just watch David Threlfall in Shameless as an example). But interestingly enough, a study from the University of Washington says that participants believe the benefits outweigh the negative.
The report is aptly titled “Rose-colored beer goggles: The relation between experiencing alcohol consequences and perceived likelihood and valence.” Basically, we may just have beer goggles for drinking.
As Science Daily reported, alcohol’s function as a social lubricant that allows people to thrive in situations where they normally wouldn’t. The guy you had been too nervous to approach all night becomes an old pal after a couple drinks. Some how, you became funny in the past half hour. Then, at the end of the night he goes home with you.
If that was packaged as a pill, doctors would be inundated with requests for it. The study suggests that the social benefits are the reason binge drinking persists. |
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