Excessive drinking can kill you -- and claims the lives of an estimated 88,000 Americans per year, according to a first-of-its-kind study.
That’s 1 in 10 deaths in working-age adults -- and more than half are related to binge drinking.
If you find this sobering, keep reading. Some 37 million adults -- about 17 percent -- reported binge drinking, according to the study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Let’s define binge drinking: for men, it’s having five or more alcoholic drinks in a two-hour window; women need to drink at least four drinks in that span for it be considered binging.
A binge drinker typically drinks about once a week, drinking seven drinks within two hours.
The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System is a phone survey that collects yearly data on health and risk behaviors of U.S. adults. For the first time, gathering data on 2015, they asked about 400,00 people over 18, including underage drinkers from 18 to 20, about their drinking “in the past 30 days.”
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