It is difficult to set a threshold dose or a dose limit beyond which the drinker is considered excessive drinker, alcoholic or alcohol-dependent. Very briefly, alcohol dependence or alcohol abuse begins when the amount of alcohol ingested is greater than what the body can tolerate, metabolize or oxidize. A consumption of more than four “cups” of alcohol (wine, beer or hard liquor) three times per week in all pathological cases. This concept of threshold dose or maximum dose of alcohol is still questionable because it ignores factors of individual tolerance and sensitivity to the harmful effects of ethanol. The effects of a single ingestion of alcohol on the body vary from one topic to another: the alcohol (alcohol in the blood) induced by alcohol intake and risk of dependence vary depending on the volume of body weight, eating habits and repetitive or isolated from the alcohol. The ingestion of alcohol in large quantities, still harmful, are particularly toxic in pregnancy, in children and adolescents and the elderly.
Alcohol Threshold
