Binge drinking

William Hogarth , around 1732: A Midnight Modern Conversation

As binge drinking (including binge drinking called, English binge drinking ) is a form of alcohol abuse referred to, with a lot of alcohol is consumed in a short time to an altered state of consciousness ( noise ) bring to tipsy to be or tipsy. As a rule, a consumed amount of 5 or more standard glasses is assumed because a certain degree of alcohol poisoning is likely here . This definition goes back to Wechsler et al. from 1994, who defined binge drinking as "consumption of at least 5 glasses of alcohol per drinking opportunity", whereby a glass unit was quantified as 0.12 liters of wine, 0.36 liters of beer or 0.04 liters of spirits, which is the consumption of at least This corresponds to 0.6 liters of wine, 1.8 liters of beer or 0.2 liters of spirits per drinking opportunity. Since 2004 there has been a further definition of binge drinking in the alcohol epidemiology in the sense of “consumption of that amount of alcohol which causes a blood alcohol concentration of at least 0.8 per mille”. In public discourse and in the media, “binge drinking” is usually equated with “excessive alcohol consumption”, often also “with the declared aim of getting drunk”, i.e. with “conscious binge drinking”, “drinking contests” or “fighting drinking”, and refers to it mainly focus on alcohol abuse among adolescents .

In Austria, binge drinking was voted Unword of the Year 2007.

Alcohol intoxication

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Addiction reports and studies

In epidemiological questionnaires, respondents are usually asked how often they have been intoxicated with alcohol in a certain period of time.

More recent studies in this context are:

• Federal Center for Health Education: The Drug Affinity of Young People in the Federal Republic of Germany 2011. Volume: Alcohol. 2012. (Repeated representative survey of the 12 to 25 year old population in the Federal Republic of Germany)
• The Drug Commissioner of the Federal Government: Drugs and Addiction Report 2013 ( Memento from January 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Report on the current data situation and the drug and addiction policy activities of the Federal Government from January 2012 to April 2013)
• European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs: The 2011 ESPAD Report - Substance Use Among Students in 36 European Countries. 2012. (Repeated representative survey of the 15 to 16 year old population in 36 European countries)
• Martin Stolle, Peter-Michael Sack, Rainer Thomasius: Heavy drinking in childhood and adolescence. Epidemiology, Impact, and Intervention. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt international. 19, 2009, pp. 323-328.
• Criminological Research Institute Lower Saxony e. V./ Federal Ministry of the Interior: Young people in Germany as victims and perpetrators of violence. 2009. (Representative survey of> 44,000 young people, 9th grade in Germany, including on substance use)
• Criminological Research Institute Lower Saxony e. V. (KfN): Lower Saxony Schoolchildren Survey : Representative survey with 9,512 young people, 9th grade. 2013.

Epidemiology

After the last survey of the BZgA alcohol consumption adolescents and young adults in 2012 , which was published in 2014, the prevalence is of binge drinkings (= binge drinking ) in the last 4 weeks preceding the survey among 12 to 17 year olds at 17.4% in the 18 to 25 year olds at 44.1%. There are gender-specific differences in that girls are less likely to be binge drinking. The prevalence among girls is 16.1% for 12-17 year olds and 34.9% for 18-25 year olds (4 drinks or more at one occasion). In contrast, the prevalence of binge drinking in the last 4 weeks prior to the survey among boys (5 drinks or more on one occasion) was 18.7% (12–17 years) and 52.9% (18–25 years). There are still clear differences between the age groups: The frequency of binge drinking is 6.3% for 12 to 15 year olds, 39.7% for 16 to 17 year olds and 39.7% for 18 to 21 year olds 45.8% and for 22 to 25 year olds 42.4%.

In a representative study for Germany by Donath et al. (2011) with more than 44,000 adolescents, there are differences in the prevalence among adolescents of urban and rural origin as well as between adolescents with and without a migration background: While the prevalence of heavy drinking among 15-year-old adolescents, those who lived in the big city (more than 100,000 inhabitants) was 49.9%, the incidence of binge drinking among young people living in rural areas was 57.3% (based on the last 4 weeks before the survey).

Donath et al. (2011) and the data from the BZgA showed that young people with a Turkish migration background were significantly less likely to binge drink (23.6% in the last 4 weeks). In Donath et al. It was also found that young people with a Russian migration background do not drink significantly more often than German young people without a migration background (56.2% Russian migration background; 57.4% Germans without a migration background).

Data from a representative study published in 2016 indicate a frequency of binge drinking among 15-year-old adolescents of 30.1% within the last 4 weeks, although there are differences in terms of existing migration background: Adolescents without a migration background have a rate of 32.5%, while around a quarter (24.3%) of young people with a migrant background drink binge.

Protection and Risk Factors

In an analysis with a sample representative for Germany it was shown that on the one hand convinced and lived religiosity and low socio-economic resources were a protective factor for binge drinking among young people. This means that religiously rooted adolescents or adolescents who lived in households with little economic leeway were significantly less likely to be involved in binge drinking. Furthermore, the study by Donath (2012) showed that truancy, academic failure (in the form of bad grades or “staying seated”), experienced verbal aggression by teachers in school and current or previous suicidal thoughts were significant risk factors significantly increased the likelihood of binge drinking among adolescents.

In the case of young people with a migration background, the type of school-leaving certificate they are aiming for, the independence of the family from government financial support for livelihood and a strong tendency towards cultural assimilation in German society are related to binge drinking (Donath 2016). In contrast, these data, published in 2016, also show that cultural segregation of one's own group and strong adherence to the traditions of the family's country of origin go hand in hand with a lower frequency of binge drinking.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kenn-your-limit.info
2. ↑ jama.jamanetwork.com
3. ↑ kenn-dein-limit.de
4. ↑ 52 glasses of tequila, two weeks in a coma. In: Spiegel Online - Wissenschaft. March 7, 2007, accessed April 8, 2011 .  
5. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Center for Health Education : The alcohol consumption of adolescents and young adults in Germany 2012. Results of a current representative survey and trends. Federal Center for Health Education, Cologne 2014.
6. ↑ ^{a b c} C. Donath, E. Grässel, D. Baier, C. Pfeiffer, D. Karagülle, S. Bleich, T. Hillemacher: Alcohol consumption and binge drinking in adolescents: comparison of different migration backgrounds and rural vs. urban residence - a representative study. In: BMC public health. Volume 11, 2011, p. 84, doi: 10.1186 / 1471-2458-11-84 . PMID 21299841 , PMC 3045949 (free full text).
7. ↑ ^{a b c} C. Donath, D. Baier, E. Graessel, T. Hillemacher: Substance consumption in adolescents with and without an immigration background: a representative study - What part of an immigration background is protective against binge drinking? In: BMC Public Health. 16, 2016, p. 1157. doi: 10.1186 / s12889-016-3796-0 (free full text).
8. ^ ^{A b} C. Donath, E. Grässel, D. Baier, C. Pfeiffer, S. Bleich, T. Hillemacher: Predictors of binge drinking in adolescents: ultimate and distal factors - a representative study. In: BMC public health. Volume 12, 2012, p. 263, doi: 10.1186 / 1471-2458-12-263 . PMID 22469235 , PMC 3378431 (free full text).

Web links

Wiktionary: binge drinking  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Binge drinking - young people and alcohol - a report
• "Alcohol? Know your limit. ” - Largest nationwide campaign for alcohol prevention, which is primarily aimed at young people. It is carried out by the Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA).
• C. Donath, E. Grässel, D. Baier, C. Pfeiffer, S. Bleich, T. Hillemacher: Predictors of binge drinking in adolescents: ultimate and distal factors - a representative study. In: BMC public health. Volume 12, 2012, p. 263, doi: 10.1186 / 1471-2458-12-263 . PMID 22469235 , PMC 3378431 (free full text). - Scientific study on protection and risk factors
• C. Donath, E. Grässel, D. Baier, C. Pfeiffer, D. Karagülle, S. Bleich, T. Hillemacher: Alcohol consumption and binge drinking in adolescents: comparison of different migration backgrounds and rural vs. urban residence - a representative study. In: BMC public health. Volume 11, 2011, p. 84, doi: 10.1186 / 1471-2458-11-84 . PMID 21299841 , PMC 3045949 (free full text). - Scientific study on the frequency of binge drinking depending on where you live or on migration background
• C. Donath, D. Baier, E. Graessel, T. Hillemacher: Substance consumption in adolescents with and without an immigration background: a representative study - What part of an immigration background is protective against binge drinking? In: BMC Public Health. 16, 2016, p. 1157. doi: 10.1186 / s12889-016-3796-0 (free full text) - scientific study on migration-specific factors associated with binge drinking

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