Typically defined as having 5 or more drinks within one day.
Defined by most experts as having five or more drinks in a row for men and four or more drinks in a row for women. According to research from the Harvard School of Public Health, binge drinkers are 10 times as likely to drive after drinking and 11 times as likely to fall behind in class work. Half of all college binge drinkers start in high school.
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism defines binge drinking as the amount of alcohol leading to a blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.08, which, for most adults, would be reached by consuming five drinks for men or four for women over a 2-hour period.
traditionally and clinically refers to drinking in which the binger is continuously intoxicated for a period of at least two days, during which time the binger drops out of usual life activities such as going to work, meeting family responsibilities, etc. In recent years some activists have used the term to refer to situations in which a man consumes as few as five drinks in a day or in which a woman consumes as few as four drinks in a day. Such a misuse of the term dramatically increases the number of individuals who are categorized as bingers and has been criticized as misleading and deceptive by numerous professional organizations. See Binge Drinking
Drinking to intoxication. Drinking five or more drinks at a time is considered binge drinking.
Drinking a lot of alcohol in a relatively short period of time. Definitions have changed dramatically over the years. Now often defined as five or more drinks in a row (during one night) for a man, or four or more drinks for a woman. Binge drinking is associated with a higher risk of experiencing negative consequences of alcohol use.
A heavy drinking session normally associated with alcohol.
when a woman has 4+ drinks or a man has 5+ drinks at a sitting within a 2 week period who normally do not drink.
For men, binge drinking is defined as drinking five or more drinks in a row, and for women as drinking four or more drinks in a row in the past two weeks. "Frequent" binge drinking is defined as binge drinking three or more times in the past two weeks.
refers to excessive alcohol consumption, whereby the individual consuming is continuously intoxicated for a period of at least two days.
The consumption of five or more alcoholic drinks in a row on at least one occasion.
is defined as consumption of five or more drinks on a single occasion - which is approximately the amount of alcohol needed to raise the average sized person's blood alcohol concentration to about 0.10%.
A pattern of heavy drinking that occurs during an extended period of time set aside for drinking. Has been described as 5/4 binge drinking: five or more drinks in a row on a single occasion for a man or four or more drinks for a woman.
The British Medical Association states that "there is no consensus on the definition of binge drinking.