Heavy Drinkers Really Don’t ‘Handle Their Liquor,’ Study Says

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misnomer that heavy drinkers can “hold their liquor, (View Highlight)
The study published Sunday in the journal Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research. It analyzed three types of young adult drinkers, most in their 20s, who were part of the Chicago Social Drinking Project, an ongoing research study started by King in 2004. The 397 participants included light drinkers, heavy social drinkers and those who had alcohol abuse disorder. (View Highlight)
Light drinkers were defined as people who drink up to six “standard” drinks a week but do not bin (View Highlight)
second group in the study were heavy social drinkers, defined as those who drank 10 drinks a week at a minimum and binged alcohol one to five times a month. (View Highlight)
third group included drinkers who met the criteria for alcohol use disorder — 28 or more drinks per week for men and 21 for women — and who frequently binged at least one-third or more days in a month. (View Highlight)

heavy drinkers and those with alcohol use disorder had no problems with the cognitive test, while lighter drinkers felt sedated and fatigued (View Highlight)