The same can be said for someone who drinks copious amounts of alcohol. According to Aaron Brower and Lisa Carroll of the Journal of American College Health, "The NIAAA challenges binge eating as 5 or more drinks for a man and 4 or more drinks for a woman within a 2-hour period" (Brower, Carroll 1). Drinking more than 4 drinks in such a short time will definitely impact a person's well-being and cognitive function, and is also quite dangerous, especially if that person were to go out after consuming the alcohol. And this is exactly the author's point; Binge drinking is not only dangerous for the drinker, but also for those around him. For example, in 2004, “alcohol-fueled riots after a [2004] Halloween celebration cost the city of Madison nearly half a million dollars” (Brower, Carroll 1). Not only that, but more money was dedicated to the college town of Madison, which had negative effects on all of Wisconsin; with extra patrols to make sure college students were safe, the rest of the city was taken into account