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"   Raise your hand if you love pre-gaming before a big night out! (Yeah, us too.) It saves money and is a great excuse to start the party early\u2014what&amp;#039;s not to love? But according to a new study, it might also be bad for your health. Researchers at Loyola Marymount University discovered that it can lead you to drink twice the amount that you normally would on a night out\u2026so maybe that whole &amp;quot;saving money&amp;quot; theory is bogus. In the study, scientists followed 183 pre-gamers and checked in on them six different times via text from 5 p.m. until the next morning (we bet those 1 a.m. drunk texts were pretty damn hilarious). Here&amp;#039;s what they found: 36 percent of women had a hangover the next day and seven percent had unplanned or unprotected sex\u2014yikes. On a lighter note, 3.5 percent of guys reported doing property damage or vandalism, while, to no one&amp;#039;s surprise, zero percent of women did. But our favorite part of this study? The scientific explanation of pre-gaming: &amp;quot;Pre-drinking is a pernicious drinking pattern that is likely to lead people to cumulate two normal drinking occasions\u2014one off-premise followed by one on-premise.&amp;quot; Well said, scientists! Obviously, we want you guys to have fun, but we want you to be safe about it. If you still want to pre-game, maybe make a pact with yourself first that you won&amp;#039;t drink when you go out, or will only have one drink once you hit the bar. Your liver\u2014and your head\u2014will thank you later. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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