binge drinking (redirected fromBinge drink) Medical binge drinking n. Consumption of a large number of alcoholic beverages within a short period of time. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Publishe...
Binge drinking was more common among adults aged 18 to 34, but more than half of the number of binge drinks consumed in 2015 were by adults aged 35 and older. About 4 in 5 binge drinks were consumed by men, the researchers found. Education and income also played a part in who was mo...
Results: Between 1993 and 2001, the total number of binge-drinking episodes among US adults increased from approximately 1.2 billion to 1.5 billion; during this time, binge-drinking episodes per person per year increased by 17% (from 6.3 to 7.4, P for trend = .03). Between 1995 and 2001...
The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism describes a binge as drinking five or more drinks for men and four or more for women within a two-hour period, and for many college students, these limits wouldn't equate to a particularly heavy night. Previous research has linked binge ...
The government of the United Kingdom (UK) issued guidelines for sensible drinking as 2-3 alcohol units per day for women and 3-4 units per day for men, an alcohol unit being 10 milliliters of ethanol. A binge drinking episode is when a person drinks above double the recommended daily ...
This study was designed to assess undergraduates' (N = 424) definitions of binge drinking and to evaluate whether the number of drinks they said comprise a binge varied as a function of beverage type, respondent gender, and respondent binge drinking status. When asked to designate the specific ...
For females, each one standard deviation increase in NPH score was associated with a 1.52 relative risk of binge drinking (95 % confidence interval, 1.10, 2. 10) in the adjusted model. The findings were robust to a sensitivity analysis in which we used the average number of drinks per ...
Nationally, 18.3% of people were binge drinkers in 2012, which the CDC defines as consuming four drinks or more for women and five drinks or more for men on a single occasion at least once during the past month. Since 2005, binge drinking has increased 8.9% across the US. ...
her team will report that daily treatment with another brain-opiate blocker reduced the number and intensity of binges in all but one person. Coming: drug therapy for chocoholics? Research on liver damage specifically from binge drinking may be scarce because research has repeatedly found that harm...
Nationally, 18.3% of people were binge drinkers in 2012, which the CDC defines as consuming four drinks or more for women and five drinks or more for men on a single occasion at least once during the past month. Since 2005, binge drinking has increased 8.9% across the US. ...