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While not an official medical term, drunkorexia refers to the combination of alcohol abuse and anorexia or bulimia—a medical condition that researchers and therapists say is becoming increasingly prevalent, especially among female college students. (It joins an already absurd eating disorder lexicon that includes words such as “manorexia” and “bigorexia.”) Those afflicted typically starve themselves all day before drinking in order to offset those liquid calories, or dangerously binge and purge food and alcohol...
...order to ensure that there’s ample room for the beer shotgunning to follow in the evening. And nothing gives that tired screwdriver more kick than an empty stomach—an emptiness that’ll also help you achieve the same comedic stupor with less alcohol...
Students returning to campus this fall found it more difficult than usual to quench their thirst for alcoholic beverages. The reason? Harvard’s calendar reform, which started classes a few weeks earlier than usual and left primary campus liquor providers C’est Bon Convenience and Doma Liquors caught off guard by the early return of students at the end of last month and unable to fully meet the demands of the student body. “Usually, Harvard students come here mid-September,” said Subash Khadka, an employee at Doma...
Guess they weren't ready for summer vacation to end either. Doma employee Subash Khadka estimates they order roughly double the amount of alcohol during the school year. Imagine their surprise when a slew of students in search of alcohol turned up before Labor Day. You don't have to graph any supply and demand curves to figure out we were hit by an temporary liquor shortage...
Never fear, though. C'est Bon and Doma are both placing large shipments of alcohol for the weekend ahead...