Henry Wechsler
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Henry Wechsler was a member of the School of Public Health at Harvard University. Contrary to press accounts, he was not a professor, but a lecturer.
Wechsler is best known for popularizing the term “binge drinking” to refer, controversially, to the consumption of four alcoholic drinks by a woman on an occasion and five alcoholic drinks by a man. This definition does not take into account the length of the drinking "occasion," nor does it account for the drinker's weight.
Wechsler has conducted several surveys of college and university students across the United States and published extensively on the subject. His most recent book, written with Bernice Wuethrick, is Dying to Drink: Confronting Binge Drinking on College Campuses. (Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Press, 2002).
[edit] Further reading
- Hoover, E. Binge Drinking: Henry Wechsler has Defined the Student Drinking Problem, for Better or Worse. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2002, 49 (11), p. 11A.
- When is a binge a binge? Prevention File, 1996.
[edit] External links
- Dr. Wechsler's Home page includes his research interests and major publications.
