A new study released in the USA underlying an increasing prevalent issue on university and college campuses: Drunkorexia. Drunkorexia is a new eating disorder in which an individual purposefully cuts calories during the day to ‘allow’ thereself to binge drink that night. The individual (generally students) is motivated by the notion of getting drunk faster, saving money to spend solely on alcohol as well as a method to keep their weight down. This alarming new trend is suspected to be affecting 1 in 5 students, with the majority of affected individuals being women.
In the report they examine not only this new emerging trend but also how this can negatively affect the individual’s mental and physical health as well as their personal safety. “Drunkorexics are at greater risk of becoming sexual assault victims and suffering from substance abuse and more severe eating disorders later in life” said Dr. Valerie Taylor, chief psychiatry at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto.
I find it sad and alarming how much our society has become controlled by alcohol consumption. Not only does it affect our mental status, social relationships, self-image and economic factors but now it’s affecting our lives in an entirely new way by combining the all the above into one giant superpower ailment on both the individual and society.
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