Blackouts are alcohol-related amnesia, occurring when long term memory creation is impaired during a drinking episode, resulting in an inability to remember.

They back current specific advice for children and pregnant women, and say "there could be merit" in producing new rules for older people as well as limits for "individual drinking episodes", but find no evidence for increasing current general safe limits.

Five patients recollected vomiting during the drinking episode while 32 drank on an empty stomach and 41 drank more than originally planned.

During the drinking episode 31% subjects described blackouts, 20% described brownouts, and 49% reported no amnesic episode.

At the end of six months, 12 people in the treatment group reported they had not had any drinking episodes, defined as taking three or more drinks.

Alcohol-related anterograde amnesia is directly related to the rate of consumption of alcohol (and is often associated with binge drinking), and not just the total amount of alcohol consumed in a drinking episode.

In early June 2009, Symonds was sent home from the ICC World Twenty20 tournament in England following a late-night drinking episode after a team dinner.

Usually, the best times to talk with a person who has an alcohol use problem are right after a drinking episode or first thing in the morning before the person has had a drink.

There's another drinking episode,' " Ms. Alcaide said.

According to biographer McFeely, as the siege began, Grant lapsed into a two-day drinking episode.