Designing drunkenness: How pubs, bars and nightclubs increase alcohol sales.

Using ethnographic data, this paper investigates the techniques used inside pubs, bars and nightclubs to solicit and sustain alcohol consumption among patrons. Focus is on venues with the majority of patrons belonging to the age group of approximately 15-35 years. The paper identifies a number of techniques, both overt and covert, including: alcohol advertising; special offers (e.

The pleasures of drunken one-night stands: Assemblage theory and narrative environments.

Background: In this study, we use assemblage theory to investigate the link between alcohol use and one-night stands.

Methods: The data come from qualitative interviews conducted with 104 young participants in the night-time economy.

Results: We show that: (i) alcohol-fuelled sexual explorations (e.

Drunken environments: a survey of bartenders working in pubs, bars and nightclubs.

There is evidence that bartenders play a key role in respect of the health and safety of patrons in nightlife environments. However, little is known of how bartenders themselves are affected by the environments in which they work, especially with regard to their exposure to violence, pressure to drink and stress. We used a cross-sectional survey to assess the experiences of bartenders (n = 424) working in pubs, bars and nightclubs in Denmark.

The influence of guides on alcohol consumption among young tourists at a nightlife resort.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess how participation in party activities with guides affects alcohol consumption among young tourists at an international nightlife resort.

Methods: Prospective survey of 112 Danish tourists in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria, who were asked about their drinking and activities with guides on three separate nights out.

Results: Participation in party activities with guides, such as drinking games and Pub Crawls, were associated with heavily increased drinking compared with nights out without guides, but not in a dose-response type relationship.

Intoxicating stories: the characteristics, contexts and implications of drinking stories among Danish youth.

Aims: To study the characteristics, contexts and implications of drinking stories among young drinkers.

Methods: Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted among Danish youth at a beach resort in Bulgaria. The fieldwork included three months of participant observation and 45 semi-structured interviews with a total of 104 tourists and 11 guides.

Predictors of hangover during a week of heavy drinking on holiday.

Aims: To investigate predictors of hangover during a week of heavy drinking in young adults. Design Observational prospective study.

Methods: A total of 112 young Danish tourists were interviewed on three occasions during their holiday.

Evening experiences versus drinking indicators as predictors of hangover on a summer holiday.

Little is known about predictors of hangover symptoms. The subjective experience of the "night out" may influence the experience of hangover symptoms. We conducted a survey of 325 young men and women at a vacation resort during the daytime, administering subjects the Acute Hangover Scale (AHS) and asking questions about drinking and behaviors the night before.

Safety problems among heavy-drinking youth at a Bulgarian nightlife resort.

Background: Vacations at international nightlife resorts represent an important but also risky element in the lives of youth in many countries. There is an urgent need for evaluating the role played by bars and nightclubs in producing and reducing risks; this task is important, especially at upcoming nightlife resorts with limited experience in managing young partygoers from other countries.

Methods: Seven weeks of ethnographic fieldwork was conducted during the summer 2007 at the emerging Bulgarian nightlife resort, Sunny Beach.

Party package travel: alcohol use and related problems in a holiday resort: a mixed methods study.

Background: People travelling abroad tend to increase their use of alcohol and other drugs. In the present study we describe organized party activities in connection with young tourists' drinking, and the differences between young people travelling with and without organized party activities.

Methods: We conducted ethnographic observations and a cross-sectional survey in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria.

Gender differences in self-reported drinking-induced disinhibition of sexual behaviors.

Sex and drinking go hand-in-hand in Western societies. Men also tend to report more sexual disinhibition under the influence of alcohol and drugs than women. At a vacation resort, we conducted a survey of young men and women regarding self-reported alcohol-related sexual disinhibition (ARSD), and we administered the Drinking-Induced Disinhibition Scale (DIDS).

Patterns of binge drinking at an international nightlife resort.

Aims: The aim of this study was to compare the patterns of substance use in young Danes while holidaying in the Bulgarian holiday resort of Sunny Beach (SB) to their patterns of substance use in Denmark.

Methods: Data were collected from visitors to SB in 2007 (n = 1011). Information on alcohol and drug use was surveyed using a short questionnaire.