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Stolle, Sack and Thomasius define binge drinking as episodic excessive drinking. [7] There is currently no worldwide consensus on how many drinks constitute a "binge", but in the United States, the term has been described in academic research to mean consuming five or more standard drinks (male), or four or more drinks (female), [12] over a two-hour period. [13]
Despite having a legal drinking age of 21, binge drinking in the United States remains very prevalent among high school and college students. Using the popular 5/4 definition of "binge drinking", one study found that, in 1999, 44% of American college students (51% male, 40% female) engaged in this practice at least once in the past two weeks. [26]
Women are more likely to binge drink when they have higher levels of estrogen, new research has suggested.. The study, by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, discovered women’s ...
Women develop long-term complications of alcohol dependence more rapidly than do men, women also have a higher mortality rate from alcoholism than men. [47] Examples of long-term complications include brain, heart, and liver damage [48] and an increased risk of breast cancer. Additionally, heavy drinking over time has been found to have a ...
Long associated with college students, binge drinking, defined as having four or more drinks within two hours at least five times per month for women (five drinks for men) is on the rise among ...
At a national level, heavy drinking, which is considered an average of more than one drink a day for women and two. Heavy and binge drinking have been a growing trend in the U.S., according to a ...
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) defines binge drinking as a pattern of drinking alcohol that brings blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to 0.08 grams percent or above. For the typical adult, this pattern corresponds to consuming five or more drinks (men), or four or more drinks (women) in about two hours. [11]
And rates of daily drinking and binge drinking among young adults continued to decline, following a general downward trend over the past decade. The report comes as the number of Americans who ...