the United States and worldwide, he said.
Binge drinking is generally defined as consuming five or more alcoholic drinks at a time. NIAAA suggests seniors cap their alcohol intake at three drinks a day.
Because the new study used the higher cutoff, it may actually underestimate how common binge drinking is among U.S. seniors.
Han isn’t sure why binge drinking is on the rise among older people, but he has a theory.
“It is possible,” he said, “that the increase in binge drinking is partly
