In this behavior, mostly female drinkers avoid eating during the day, to be able to consume more calories though alcohol.
By Cara Rosenbloom March 11 at 7:00 AM My college experience included this life-skills lesson: Drink alcohol on a full stomach, so you don’t get inebriated too quickly. Of course, most college students shouldn’t be drinking at all, but we know from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism that close to 60 percent of college students ages 18 to 22 do consume alcohol, which makes harm-reducing approaches important.
Tavis Glassman, professor of health education and public health at University of Toledo in Ohio, researches drunkorexia and worries about scenarios such as the one described above: “With nothing in her system, alcohol hits quickly, and that brings up the same issues as with any high-risk drinking: getting home safely, sexual assault, unintentional injury, fights, blackouts, hangovers that affect class attendance and grades, and possibly ending up in emergency because the alcohol hits so hard,”...
With all of the noted harms, why would a promising college freshman choose this unhealthy pattern? Well, likely it’s not a choice, but mental health and addiction issues mixed together. Studies show that having a preexisting eating disorder or alcoholism are predictors of drunkorexia. Adding drunkorexia to the DSM would increase the likelihood that a person with this condition can receive insurance coverage for treatment. That’s an important consideration, since treatment may include a costly team approach, including dietitians, psychologists and medical doctors who are able to care for the “dual diagnosis” — a medical term for a practice that treats people who suffer from both an addiction and a psychiatric disorder.
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