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Saturday, May 14, 2011

RISKY SINGLE OCCASION DRINKING RESEARCH: THE FOUR STAGES OF ENLIGHTENMENT



We are grateful for the comments of our highly esteemed  colleagues.

First, they raise concerns about the name and definition of the underlying concept [1,2].While the sociology of research of binge drinking is interesting [2], our aim
was much more modest: we have been trying to clarify a concept which could help research to better interpret the myriad of empirical findings. With this objective in mind
and to avoid confusion, we prefer the term risky single occasion drinking (RSOD) in order to separate it from more chronic heavy drinking. Second, to define the cut-off for RSOD.
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