Americans Binge 17 Billion Drinks Per Year, CDC Says

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers some striking findings on Americans’ drinking habits. The study focuses on binge drinking and finds that U.S. adults consumed an astounding 17.5 billion binge drinks in 2015. That works out to nearly 470 binge drinks a year for each of the 37.4 million people who reported alcohol binges.
Binge drinking is defined as consuming five or more alcoholic beverages for men, or four or more drinks for women, within a