At a routine check-up recently the nurse asked me if I drink and I said yes. When she asked me how much I said it probably evened out to about one a day. She told me that was nothing, but what if I was one of those people who crammed a week's worth of drinks into a single night? Would that still be nothing? 

Not a lot is known about the effects of binge drinking aside from the splitting headaches and nauseau people experience the next morning. But what do those symptoms mean for your body? After all, isn't this a mild kind of alcohol poisoning? Researchers at UC San Diego are starting to look into the effects of binge drinking and what it does to a person's brain.

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