Binge drinking is the practice of drinking a high volume of alcohol over a short period of time (e.g., five drinks within a few hours). Binge drinking tends to increase the risk of making poor choices such as driving while intoxicated and binge drinkers often have more denial about the problem because they only drink on weekends rather than every day.
A new report has found that older people who abuse alcohol drink more than their younger counterparts—possibly because they need more alcohol to achieve the desired effects.
A new study shows that one in 25 deaths around the world is caused by alcohol consumption, suggesting that booze is now as damaging to global health as tobacco was a decade ago.
According to a new study in the British medical journal the Lancet, as of 2004, 3.8 percent of deaths worldwide were the result of alcohol consumption. Alcohol-related causes of death include accidents, violence, poisoning, mouth and throat cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, suicide, stroke, and more.
By Alison Lyke
Binge drinking is an intense consumption of alcoholic drinks (4-6 in a session) followed by intermittent periods of alcohol abstinence. Binge drinking has long been a problem for college students and college-age young adults. The physical consequences of binge drinking consist of drunk-driving accidents, alcohol related illness, and approximately 1,700 students deaths each year from alcohol poisoning. There are many social consequences to binge drinking, it can impair judgment and make people say or do things that they wouldn’t normally. This can lead to fractured friendships and relationships. … Continue Reading
Most of us know someone who often boasted that he or she could drink everyone under the table—and usually did. But being able to drink copious amounts of alcohol without becoming blindingly drunk will do much more harm than good in the long run, as a new study shows that young men who have a high tolerance for alcohol face a greater risk for alcoholism later in life than those who readily feel alcohol’s effects.
