[Chapters from alcohology].

Abstract

In the first decade after the turn of the millennium, a high-risk behavior, called drunkorexia, became fashionable, mainly among college students. Drunkorexia is a syndrome that is a combination of deliberate starvation or binge eating and vomiting with alcohol abuse, and has an increasing frequency among the young adult population, but with an insufficiently known prevalence. It has significant physical, psychological and social-health consequences. The interference between metabolic changes caused by starvation and excessive alcohol consumption can result in the development of a life-threatening condition. Refinement of the diagnostic criteria makes possible to establish an accurate diagnosis. In the course of the therapy, in addition to psychoeducation and psychotherapy methods, there is also a place for drug treatment. Orv Hetil. 2024; 165(48): 1888–1893.