Word: drunkorexia
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Dates: during 2009-2009
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...next time you pass out on that toilet bowl throwing up luscious chunks of HUDS popcorn chicken after a long night of regrettable, irresponsible drinking, comfort yourself with one thought: you’re probably not suffering from “drunkorexia...
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...
...Armstrong, clinical director for the Boston-based Multiservice Eating Disorders Association, told Flyby that clinicians from her organization working with area colleges, which include Harvard, have definitely noticed a growing number of drunkorexia cases. She didn’t have statistics for drunkorexia and didn't cite Harvard specifically, but noted that in 2009, an estimated one in 12 college students struggled with eating disorders. Of the 24 million people diagnosed with eating disorder cases in the U.S., she said, roughly two-thirds were college students...
...Harvard seems to have largely dodged drunkorexia. J.P. Chilazi ’10, president of University Health Services' Drug & Alcohol Peer Advisors, said he hasn’t heard of the condition being a problem here and noted that a 2008 campus survey found 96 percent of all Harvard students eating before or while drinking. But as “someone who knows a fair amount about alcohol consumption patterns,” he said he found the condition’s name to be “bizarre” and hoped for a “more technical...
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