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A comment on The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous (2015). Parent comment

Re:The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous (2015) by DanBC on Sunday August 20, 2017 @10:39AM (#15058551)
20 drinks at one sitting is a lot, and it's firmly in the problem and harmful drinking end of risky alcohol use.

People with alcoholism can drink a lot more than that.

A UK unit of alcohol is 10 ml of pure alcohol. You'd consider inpatient residential rehab for someone drinking 30 units per day. There are roughly 40 units in a litre of spirits in the UK.

https://pathways.nice.org.uk/pathways/alcohol-use-disorders/...

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Re:The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous (2015) by 0xcde4c3db on Sunday August 20, 2017 @12:04PM (#15058946)
And just to be clear, it's rare that what people call "a drink" is only one unit. What someone casually counts as "20 drinks" could easily be 50+ units.
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