Binge-drinking is popular across a spectrum of age groups, but recent analyses reveal that adults have a preference for beer binges while teens tend to swill the harder spirits.<br />
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"Beer accounted for more than three times as many drinks as the next most common beverage types," said Dr. Timothy Naimi, who found that nearly 75 percent of adult men and women who binge exclusively prefer beer, 17 percent drank the harder stuff and 9 percent drank wine. "Beer is king when it comes to binge drinking."<br />
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As I can attest, not all binge drinkers all are chug-a-lugging frat boys. "People of college age 18 to 25 account for only 30 percent of all binge drinking episodes," Naimi said.<br />
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Dr. Naimi also defined binge drinkers (which, by his accounts, are all readers of this site) and added to his definition… "binge drinkers tend to imbibe at least 5 or more drinks one drink after another, which leads to a host of calamities — some of them deadly — such as auto accidents as well as aberrant sexual behavior."<br />
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