People with alcohol use disorder impaired after heavy drinking, despite claims of higher tolerance

tldr they found in their study that alcoholics/people with AUD can drink 50% more (7-8 drinks) and be twice as intoxicated , as compared to standard drinkers and alcoholics at 4-5 drinks, where the alcoholics were comparatively much less intoxicated than 'standard drinkers' (I think this implies that alcoholics do have a tolerance to alcohol but tolerance is not linear)

Not ground breaking stuff imo

When they drank alcohol in our study at a dose similar to their usual drinking pattern, we saw significant impairments on both the fine motor and cognitive tests that was even more impairment than a light drinker gets at the intoxicating dose.

So at the "standard" drunk level of 4 drinks, alcoholics are less impaired, but when alcoholics drink more than that they are more impaired than a "normal" drunk person.

So alcoholics can have a higher tolerance for base consumption, but when they pass that they go straight to trashed.