The definition of pre-drinking is, “Underage drinkers motivated to pre-drink to achieve a ‘buzz’ or become intoxicated before going to a licensed premise where they cannot legally consume alcohol, such as a bar, club, concert or sporting event.,”
So reports are coming from researchers that have examined the drinking practices of 183 young adults (97 women, 86 men) with a mean age of 23 years from three higher education institutions in Switzerland. They were trying to assess alcohol consumptions and drinking location at six time points on Thursday, Friday and Saturdays during five consecutive weeks by means of the participant’s cell phone. They got a total of 7,828 assessments for analysis for 1,441 evenings. The authors of the study looked at the association between ore-drinking, overnight drinking levels and adverse outcomes. Researcher Labhart stated: “Pre-drinking is a pernicious drinking pattern that is likely to lead people to cumulate two normal drinking occasions one off-premise followed by one on-premise and generally results in excessive alcohol consumption. Excessive consumption and adverse consequences are not simply related to the type of people who pre-drink, but rather to the practice of pre-drinking itself.” With this excessive amount of drinking comes the risk of addiction and possible abuse.
I am sure that pre-drinking leads to further drinking throughout the evening. Here are some more interesting stats from Labhart: “47.5 percent of the men and women in the study reported the following out comes: hangover (40.7% men, 36.1% women) unplanned substance use (20.9% and 12.4%) blackouts (11.6% and 7.2%) unintended or unprotected sexual intercourse (8.1% and 5.2%). Logically speaking the large amounts of alcohol consumed, blackouts and hangover were especially prevalent on pre-drinking evenings.”
So that is some very interesting figures. I know when we were young the thought of drinking before hardly ever entered our minds. We just looked forward to getting smashed at the party. Things do change. Another problem we need to look into. How the human race finds ways to get happy and usually ends up harming themselves.
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