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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (2864)	10/16/2006 2:51:12 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Respond to of 10087

look, the link DMA provided has this quote: According to the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which was released last September, alcohol remains the nation's most commonly abused substance. More than 22 percent of the U.S. population, or 55 million people, ages 12 and older were binge drinkers in the past month, reported the survey, which was conducted by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. so it doesn't matter what DMA says is binge drinking. it only matters how binge drinking is defined by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. that survey provides definitions for three types of alcohol uses--Current Users, Binge Users, and Heavy Users. they are defined as follows: Current (past month) use - At least one drink in the past 30 days (includes binge and heavy use). Binge use - Five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days (includes heavy use). Heavy use - Five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days. based on the above definitions, the Survey found that: * Slightly more than half of Americans aged 12 or older reported being current drinkers of alcohol in the 2005 survey (51.8 percent). This translates to an estimated 126 million people, which is higher than the 2004 estimate of 121 million people (50.3 percent). * More than one fifth (22.7 percent) of persons aged 12 or older participated in binge drinking at least once in the 30 days prior to the survey in 2005. This translates to about 55 million people, comparable with the estimates reported since 2002. * In 2005, heavy drinking was reported by 6.6 percent of the population aged 12 or older, or 16 million people. This percentage is similar to the rates of heavy drinking in 2002 (6.7 percent), 2003 (6.8 percent), and 2004 (6.9 percent). drugabusestatistics.samhsa.gov