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This May 2023 continuing-education handout reviews alcohol blackouts and their relevance to allegations of sexual offenses. It covers memory impairment, blackout types, toxicology, and legal strategies, and includes research abstracts on alcohol-related behavior, blackouts, memory for events, and estimates of drinking.
The article describes research suggesting that a history of alcohol-related blackouts may be associated with greater memory impairment during later intoxication. In a study of college students summarized by Aaron White, participants with prior fragmentary blackouts performed worse on memory tasks when mildly intoxicated, although the authors offered more than one explanation for the association.
