I am out of that scene now, but this post takes me back - a couple of years ago - look out! It was not uncommon for me to drink most of a 1125ml (spirits) or a 24 pack of stubbies (beer) by myself over the space of a "night" - 24 hour period and I was not the worst of my friends either. I was likely a binge alcoholic - like many other Students at Otago!! (BTW - despite these weekends I graduated with an A average)

However - I don't drink much these days - have kicked the binging- but what I have learned from those days and the remote times when I wanted to drink a little, not a lot - was to drink vodka, lime and water - For some reason the hangovers are significantly less, the drink tastes great and the real secret - you can have a lime and water whenever you want and nobody but you knows the difference! Every pub will have it (though not all will have SF lime syrup - you can just ask for real lime juice - which makes each drink about 1g C )