Scientific Aspects of Moderate Drinking

What Is Moderate Drinking?

Although the benefits and risks associated with moderate drinking have gained increasing attention in recent years from both researchers and the general public, no universal definition of moderate drinking exists. Most currently used definitions are based on a certain number of drinks consumed in a specific time period. Defining a “drink,” however, also is difficult because alcoholic beverages ...

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What is moderate drinking? Defining "drinks" and drinking levels.

Although the benefits and risks associated with moderate drinking have gained increasing attention in recent years from both researchers and the general public, no universal definition of moderate drinking exists. Most currently used definitions are based on a certain number of drinks consumed in a specific time period. Defining a "drink," however, also is difficult because alcoholic beverages ...

Gender differences in moderate drinking effects.

Women appear to become more impaired than men after drinking equivalent amounts of alcohol, achieving higher blood alcohol concentrations even when doses are adjusted for body weight. This finding may be attributable in part to gender differences in total body water content. Men and women appear to eliminate approximately the same total amount of alcohol per unit body weight per hour. However, ...

Moderate Drinking, Harm Reduction, and Abstinence Outcomes

Starting in the 1970s and leading up to the present day, William Miller and his colleagues have been collecting experimental data about a moderate drinking intervention called Behavioral Self Control Training (BSCT) which has given us a lot of interesting data about who succeeds with a moderate drinking goal, who succeeds with an abstinence goal, who achieves a harm reduction goal, and who fail...