Let's face it binging on booze doesn't make you smarter. I have a longer and more intensive drinking career than you plus I'm older but I remember it took me almost a year to comprehend everything I read the first time around... I felt, well, dyslexic. I think binging is worse cuz you're pouring it down as fast as you can and that all at once stuff has got to hurt worse. It took Dylan Thomas 28 straight continuous whiskies to cause the "insult to the brain" that killed him.