(NEXSTAR) —— 一项关于美国大学校园内“Borg”饮品使用情况的最新研究表明，尽管部分使用者认为这种做法风险较低，但这一趋势可能正在助长特别有害的饮酒行为。
(NEXSTAR) – A recent study on the use of borgs at U.S. college campuses suggests that the trend could be fueling particularly harmful drinking behaviors, despite some users believing it to be less risky.
“Borg”（是“black-out rage gallons”即“断片狂怒加仑”的首字母缩写）本质上是一种大容量自制鸡尾酒，由烈酒、水、维生素或电解质补充剂以及调味料制成。
Borgs (an acronym for “black-out rage gallons”) are essentially large homemade cocktails made from liquor, water, vitamin or electrolyte supplements, and flavorings.
派对参与者将自己调制的个人“Borg”带到派对或赛前聚会上——通常装在改装的牛奶桶里——以便整天小酌慢饮。
Partygoers carry their own personal borgs to parties or tailgates — usually in repurposed milk jug — for sipping throughout the day.
“最重要的是，你得给它起个名字，”一位TikTok用户曾在2023年的一段教学视频中一边解释，一边在一个牛奶桶上写下“LeBorg James”（勒布朗·詹姆斯的谐音梗），桶里装的东西包括五分之一加仑伏特加（约750毫升）。
“Most importantly, you have to name it,” one TikTok user once explained in a 2023 instructional video, while writing the words “LeBorg James” on a milk jug that contained, among other things, a fifth of vodka.
这一想法在2020年代上半叶流行起来，主要通过社交媒体传播。
The idea gained popularity in the earlier half of the 2020s, and spread largely through social media.
这种风潮的支持者表示，他们更喜欢自制饮品，因为这样可以控制配料，且无需从共用瓶子或公共大碗酒中饮用，后者更容易被动手脚或滋生细菌。
Proponents of the fad said they preferred to mix their own beverages because they could control what goes into them, and wouldn’t need to drink from shared bottles or communal punches, which can be tampered with more easily or harbor bacteria.
“如果你去派对从公共的‘丛林果汁’大桶里喝酒……你根本不知道杯子里有什么，也不知道自己喝了多少酒，”得克萨斯理工大学持牌专业咨询师Amelia McCoun于2023年告诉Nexstar。
“If you went to a party and drank from the communal ‘jungle juice’ tub … you don’t really know what’s in your cup or how much alcohol you’re consuming,” Amelia McCoun, a licensed professional counselor at Texas Tech University, told Nexstar in 2023.
当时，McCoun还表示，“Borg”有可能作为一种减害工具发挥作用，国家减害联盟将减害定义为“一套旨在减少与药物使用相关的负面后果的实用策略和理念”。
At the time, McCoun also said borgs could potentially be useful as a tool for harm reduction, a practice defined by the National Harm Reduction Coalition as “a set of practical strategies and ideas aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use.”
具体来说，McCoun表示，可能面临同伴施压而饮酒的学生可以自制个人“Borg”，加入他们想要的任意少量酒精——甚至完全不加酒精——而没人会察觉。
Specifically, McCoun said students who may feel peer-pressured to drink can mix their own personal borg with as little alcohol as they want — or even none — and no one would be the wiser.
但 McCoun 也对“BORG 饮酒”提出了一个主要担忧，即一个装有预调鸡尾酒、易于获取的大水壶——其中可能含有危险剂量的酒精——可能导致暴饮或高强度饮酒，并增加酒精中毒或有害后果的风险。一项研究现在似乎表明这些担忧是有根据的。
But McCoun also raised a major concern about borg-drinking, specifically that an easily accessible jug filled with a pre-mixed cocktail — one that could potentially contain a dangerous amount of alcohol — might lead to binge-drinking or high-intensity drinking, and increase the risk of alcohol poisoning or harmful consequences. A study now appears to indicate those concerns are warranted.
该研究由芝加哥大学精神病学与行为神经科学系的研究人员进行，并发表在一份经同行评审的罗格斯大学期刊上，考察了美国大学生样本的饮酒行为，特别是他们与 BORG 相关的行为。根据参与者的回答，研究人员确定，BORG 饮用者在活动/派对结束时平均饮用了相当于 9.4 标准酒精饮料的量，而在“非 BORG 暴饮日”他们平均只饮用 6.3 标准酒精饮料。
The study, conducted by researchers with the University of Chicago’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience and published in a peer-reviewed Rutgers University journal, examined the drinking behavior of a sample of U.S. college students, and specifically their behaviors concerning borgs. Based on the participants’ responses, researchers determined that borg-drinkers, on average, imbibed the equivalent of 9.4 standard alcoholic beverages by the end of an event/party, whereas they only drank an average of 6.3 standard alcoholic drinks on a “non-BORG binge-drinking day.”
此外，几乎所有使用 BORG 的参与者都表示在典型的外出中会喝醉或微醺（28%），约三分之一（29%）报告出现过断片。超过一半（59%）承认在 BORG 暴饮日做过尴尬的事，略低于五分之一（17%）表示曾呕吐。
Furthermore, nearly all participants who used borgs reported getting drunk or buzzed during a typical outing (28 percent), and around a third (29 percent) reported blacking out. More than half (59 percent) admitted to doing something embarrassing during a borg binge-drinking day, and just under a fifth (17 percent) said they had vomited.
该研究还引用了与 BORG 使用相关的住院治疗先前报告，包括 2023 年的一个案例，当时马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校的数十名学生因酒精中毒接受治疗。首席研究员 Andrea C. King 博士在最近的一份新闻稿中承认，饮酒游戏“几十年来”一直与令人担忧的酒精使用有关，但她认为 BORG 的使用更令人担忧。
The study also cited previous reports of hospitalizations linked to borg usage, including one instance from 2023 in which dozens of students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst were treated for alcohol intoxication. Lead researcher Andrea C. King, PhD, acknowledged in a recent news release that drinking games have been associated with concerning alcohol use “for decades,” but suggested that borg use was more concerning.
King 表示：“BORG 中烈性酒和添加风味剂的混合可能特别有害，因为这种饮料的甜味以及分享自己的 BORG 和品尝他人调制饮品的诱惑。”
“[T]he mixing of hard liquor and additive flavorings in BORGs may be particularly harmful given the sweetness of the beverage and the lure of sharing one’s BORG and tasting others’ concoctions,” King said. (Nearly all participants in the study reported sipping from another’s borg, or sharing their own.)
（研究中几乎所有参与者都表示曾从别人的“博格”容器中抿一口，或分享自己的容器。）然而，大多数（68%）受试者表示，尽管有断片、呕吐或出丑的风险，他们明年仍有可能再次使用“博格”。其中大多数人称，是因为“博格”让社交更容易，或者单纯因为更好玩。“现有数据显示，使用‘博格’的人认为它极具社交属性，”研究结果的一部分写道。但研究人员表示，支持者吹捧的其他方面——控制酒精摄入、减少污染、有助于减少危害——“并未得到本研究的支持”。
Most (68 percent) of the study’s subjects, however, said they would likely use a borg again within the next year, despite the risk of blacking out, puking or embarrassing themselves. And most of that group said it was because borgs made it easier to socialize, or that it was just more fun. “The present data show that individuals who use BORGs perceive them as highly social,” reads a portion of the findings. But researchers say the other aspects touted by proponents — controlling alcohol intake, reducing contamination, and helping with harm reduction — “were not supported by this study.”