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how many days of drinking heavily and/or doing drugs does it take to officially constitute "a bender"?

What is the official definition of "a bender?" How many consecutive days of hard drinking and partying does it take before one can officially be said to be "on a bender?"

soundslikepuget asked in Alcohol about 1 year ago | Report

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    Bender appears as a term associated with the last or fourth stage of alcoholism marked by complete loss of control of being able to decide to drink or not, being helplessly drunk through lengthy intoxication periods and returning to drinking once regaining consciousness from previous period of passing out. In short, being at the life threatening stage of decline in alcoholism.

    Other more casual definitions put the time period at three days with the reasoning being that it is one day longer than a weekend and so is interfering with a person's ability to work a typical job.

    Then again the term seems almost celebrated by some:
    http://www.drunkard.com/issues/05_03/05-03-oart-of-the-bender.html

    Russ Campbell, NWEBS answered in Alcohol about 1 year ago | Report
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    I think it could be as little as one day, depending on the kind of thing we're talking about. Staying up for 24 hours straight and being mostly drunk/high for that entire time is quite a feat, and I would call that a bender.

    Getting a little bit drunk for 10 days in a row, on the other hand, doesn't count. In my mind, a bender is an endurance game, so how long it lasts is proportional to the intensity.

    Lee answered in Alcohol about 1 year ago | Report
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