It's a real problem on college campuses. The results were published in the January issue of the American Journal of Critical Care . Those patients generally get little or no counseling during their hospital stays, even though they are likely to become repeat visitors, Sommers said.
People have patterns of injury.
If you're injured once, you're probably going to get injured again. And that's particularly true with alcohol use. Changing a 'skewed view of addiction' Dr. Susan Nedza, a Chicago-area emergency room physician and chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians' blood alcohol reporting task force, said alcoholics are notoriously resistant to taking responsibility for their behavior. As a result, emergency room staffers tend to have a cynical attitude toward all problem drinkers. Nedza said the Cincinnati study shows it is wrong to assume that it would be a waste of time to counsel binge drinkers, defined as men who have five drinks in a sitting or women who have four a sitting.