According to research, most students are not aware

A new study reveals that nearly half of students lose or lose their energy by drinking alcohol. But most of them do not understand what is doing it.

Alcohol consumption in high school has steadily declined in the United States, but this encouraging trend is going against the tide once Americans reach adulthood.

Starting at the age of 18, Americans drink record amounts of alcohol, and excessive alcohol consumption is on the rise.

Despite the fact that half of the students surveyed by researchers at Brown University had lost weight in the last month, most of them did not know what type of drinking would interfere with their memories.

Getting drunk in black has become virtually an arrival line. Teens (more) use this expression, the movies use it as a narrative tool to convey hilarity and countless Americans use it as an excuse for having behavior lower than theirs better behavior.

This is a common practice.

In fact, during his confirmation hearing confirmation, Judge Kavanaugh, newly appointed Supreme Court Judge, said that he had already been intoxicated, and he immediately asked to Senator Amy Klobuchar if she had been.

He was accused of fainting at university, which researchers at Brown University consider hopeless – but most do not know why they hide, let alone how to prevent it.

The research team, led by Dr. Kate Carrey, a professor at the School's Center for Studies on Alcohol and Addiction, conducted a series of three studies – including surveys and interviews – on the consumption of alcohol. Alcohol in students.

At the first discussion forum, 50 students were generally aware of the basic risk factors of a power outage: strong alcohol, excessive consumption of alcohol and rapid consumption.

But the shades were lost on them.

Unbeknownst to most students, women are more likely to go black (three glasses earlier than their male counterparts) and other genetic factors come into play.

According to some estimates, having a mother who has alcohol problems makes people of one or the other sex more likely to lose consciousness, and genetic predisposition may represent up to 50% loss of consciousness.

Then there are factors that are under the control of the student – if he should choose to have them.

We do not know all the mechanisms at work in the black-outs, but we know that drinking on an empty stomach, not getting enough sleep, "pretending", mixing different liquors and mixing alcohol and alcohol drugs increases the risk of blackout. or browning.

But the students in the study did not know it.

"The type of consumption that causes alcohol-related memory problems is common, but it's not usually done with the intention of losing consciousness," said Dr. Carey.

"And those who regularly drink and report blackout experiences do not fully understand what causes them," says Dr. Carey.

For the best mind of the students and perhaps for the worse for their liver, if these students knew the causes, they could drink more and conceal less.

"What's interesting is that no matter how much you drink, there are ways to drink to prevent loss of consciousness," says Dr. Carey.

Although some studies have revealed that having 15 glasses over four hours would give you a serious chance of becoming unconscious, and that this can happen after just two hours, space as many glasses as possible over time could help you avoid a power outage.

So could drink the oldest in the book: water.

Only small amounts of water drunk during a night of drinking can prevent alcohol from accumulating, which begins to drown in all directions.

Being blackened precedes fainting and may, in some ways, be more dangerous, as the person may continue to engage in life-threatening activities and endanger other people, such as children. sexual intercourse and driving, as long as she remains conscious.

Black outs can cause lasting damage to the brain, including in about 1% to 2% of Americans, a permanent epileptic seizure called Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, which permanently impairs memory and vision.

Historically, simply teaching students the dangers of alcohol has not been effective in changing their behavior.

The Brown University team found that talking about students' power outages and helping them see these experiences as dangerous rather than "exciting" (as some students described them) prompted youth to rethink drinking abuse .

"We hope that focusing on this particular consequence of a certain style of alcohol consumption will offer many opportunities for interventions," Dr. Carey said.

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