Researchers Call for New Classification of Alcohol Misuse / Join Together, 20 June 2008
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"The Finnish researchers considered men who consumed 24 or more drinks weekly or women who consumed 16 or more drinks weekly to be hazardous drinkers. Hazardous drinking is not included as a recognized disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, however. "This is an issue that needs to be debated," said Mauri Aalto, chief physician at Finland's National Public Health Institute and corresponding author of the study."