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Whiskeytown rating=2

November 10, 2008
File under: Self Abuse

Whiskeytown Bar, NYC

If you average four drinks a night, you may or may not have a drinking problem.

Four drinks a night may or may not be detrimental to your health. The behavior might be symptomatic of a "larger issue." Or it might not.

An average of four drinks a night means an average of two and a half ounces of pure alcohol, and an average of five hundred calories, each night. It means an average of slightly slurred speech, poor balance, and somewhat uninhibited behavior. It means an average of evenings of impaired judgment, and an average of headachy mornings.

Averaging four drinks per night means twenty-eight drinks per week, a hundred and twenty drinks per month, and nearly fifteen hundred drinks per year.

Consuming an average of four drinks each night means that you don't actually have four drinks each night. Some nights, you don't drink at all. (For each of these nights, there is another night when you have eight.)

Averaging four drinks a night might mean that you are hiding from something. Or it might not. It might just be how many drinks you like to have, before stopping. It might not mean anything at all.

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