How do you define "binge drinking"?

[Taverner]

One article mentioned it's drinking more than 5 in a 24 hour period.

WTF????

OK....you could be a binge drinker, and never get drunk or even buzzed then:

For example:

1pm: 1 glass of red wine

2:30pm: 1 glass of red wine

4pm: 1 glass of red wine

5:30: 1 glass of red wine

7pm: 1 glass of red wine

And poof! You're a binge drinker! Doesn't matter that you probably aren't even buzzed, and could drive safely by legal standards (you'd be under the .08 limit)

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Avoid the brand Binge Beer and you'll be find.

:thumbsup:

[Taverner]

2. Well...

[skygazer]

3. I don't like these hard and fast definitions

That put a specific number or time or whatever on things. "You're an alcoholic if you..." and it lists a bunch of specific things that supposedly make you an alcoholic.

As for my definition of a binge drinker, I couldn't say but I know it if I see it.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. My definition: Drinking for the specific purpose of getting

flat-out drunk.

[applegrove]

8. Yup. That is my definition too.

[Fox Mulder]

5. If that's the case, then I binge drink every damn weekend.

[Shine]

6. More than 5 drinks in 12 hrs sounds more like a "binge" to me

there's something about "binge-drinking" that implies lots of drinks in a compressed amount of time for the sheer goal of getting shit-faced.

Do we need to have an intervention, Taverner? :evilgrin:

[Taverner]

7. Perhaps - according to that article

I down 1, maybe 2 22oz bombers a night. I don't get drunk, and sometimes I don't have any.

But 2 22oz bombers usually equals about 4 drinks, and with the alcohol content increased it could be 5 a day.

So I'm a binge drinker! LOL

[Shine]

9. I've had this sort of conversation with my SIL a lot.

She 52 and lives alone, although she would love to be in a relationship. I am fairly certain she drinks every night during the week and on the weekends, even more. Usually it's wine. Whenever she comes up to visit with us, she drinks every day.....waaaaay more than I can hold down. It would definitely qualify as "binge-drinking" in my book.

She has occasionally claimed to be an alcoholic at times.........but then she continues her consistent drinking lifestyle and says she's got it under control.

I truly don't know if she's ever gone more than 2 weeks, or even ONE for that matter, without drinking.

I would say she's definitely got a problem with it, binge drinks, and usually alone. :(

[Taverner]

10. I've always defined alcoholic by this measure

Does it cause problems?

If you couldn't drink, would there be problems?

If the answer to either is yes, then you might be an alcoholic

But who am I to know?