A day at the cricket: The breath alcohol consequences of a type of very English binge drinking
Abstract
Media images of violence and accidents associated with binge drinking raise concerns and the headlines and sound-bites blame heavy intoxication. However, there has been very little attention to breath alcohol concentrations (BACs) associated with bingeing. In this naturalistic study of 12 male spectators at a cricket match, alcohol consumption ranged from 8.5 to 21.7 units and at the end of play BACs ranged 0-61 mu g/100 mL. The implications of these results for the definition of a "binge'' are discussed.
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2006
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Alcohol drinking, Violence, Sports
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Wright, N. R. (2006). A day at the cricket: The breath alcohol consequences of a type of very English binge drinking. Addiction Research and Theory, 14 (2), pp.133-137.