Binge-drinking is defined as consuming four or more drinks on the same occasion for women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Heavy drinking - for women ...

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While men and young people have consistently been associated with heavy drinking, this new research ... to die from alcohol-related causes, but women became 2.5 times more likely to do so, and ...

Alcohol's normalization obscures a lot of the tolls that drinking takes on an individual’s health, but the consequences occur ...

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism defines heavy drinking for women as four or more drinks on any day or eight or more per week. For men, it is defined as five or more drinks a ...