Study: Binge Drinking Common Among Older People
08.17.09 |
Binge drinking is not just a issue with college students any more. A newly-released study conducted by Duke University researchers shows 22-percent of men and nine-percent of women ages 50 to 64 engages in binge drinking. Binge drinking is defined as having five or more drinks at one time.
The study also shows that 19-percent of men and 13-percent of women in the same age group have two or more drinks a day. For people over 65, 14-percent of men and three-percent of women engage in binge drinking.
The study was based on eleven-thousand men and women and took place in 2005 and 2006. The study appears in the latest "American Journal of Psychiatry."
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