What is the difference between an alchoholic and binge drinking?!
What is the difference between an alchoholic and binge drinking?
Why is it that people that drink everyday are ok but the people that binge drink eventually end up dieing?
Answers:
because binge-drinkers drink just to get drunk.. no other reason, they constantly over do it.. alchoholics spread it out.. it's an addiction. binge drinkers do it unsafely and they do a lot all at once.
binge drinking is like an seasonal alcoholic. but an alcoholic is a binge drinker everyday
I'm not sure that people who drink every day (i'm not talking about a glass of wine with dinner or a single cocktail or something like that) are "ok", longterm alcohol abuse can take a toll on your body as well as your relationships, jobs, etc.
Binge drinkers can die because they are taking in alcohol too quickly in amounts that just can't be processed by the body. It's alcohol poisoning and it's really no different than overdosing on any other substance. If you take enough of it at one time and it either shuts down or severely damages your organs, you can die.
While many alcoholics are binge drinkers (and vice-versa), they are not the same thing.
Binge-drinking refers to drinking several (sometimes defined as five +, but usually a lot more) drinks in a short period of time. The body cannot process alchohol this rapidly, so the alchohol builds up in the bloodstream and the drinker becomes very drunk.
Alcoholics generally drink every day. They are addicted to alchohol and their drinking generally interferes with their ability to manage their lives. Some alcholics don't binge drink, but instead drink steadily throughout the day.
Many binge drinkers never become alcoholics (think about college students), but binge drinking is extremely dangerous as it always results in poor judgment which can lead to car accidents, drowning, STDs, pregnancy, etc.
alcholics are depenant on the alchol for their fixes, while binge drinkers, drinks alot of alchol in a short time, overloading the liver, heart &all the vital organs, leading to alchol poisoning in extreme case, death
Here is the true difference...
In a 8 hr. span a drunk..let's just say has 10 beers and 6 shots...a binge drinker will have the same ammount in 2 to 3 hrs... There for your body tells you that you are nuts and most likely you will be at the local hospital getting your stomach pumped!
I think I'm a binge drinker but not an alcoholic...i usually only drink once or twice a week, but for instance on saturday, i drank 4 Jagerbombs, 6 shots, 3 beers, and 8-10 double rum and cokes...that was about a 4.5 hour span. i was pretty hammered.
a binge drinker will slam a few every now and then at a party or something, whereas an alcoholic must have a drink every day which almost always turns out to be way more than one. Binge drinkers die more often because their body is not used to a large amount of alcohol consumption. Being an alcoholic myself, i could drink any binger under the table and feel fine the next day because of my tolerance.
binge drinkers ARE alcoholics. along with the ones who drink daily and even the little old ladies who like to sip the cooking sherry while cooking. There are many types of alcoholics, and they are all bad.
Whether you get a hangover( binge drinker) or whether you drink so much you eventually drink yourself sober(alcoholic).