What Are The Binge Drinking Statistics?
Binge drinking is when men have more than 5 drinks in one sitting and girls have more than four drinks in one sitting. The binge drinking statistics are scary. Binge drinking is most common in high school and college aged people. In fact nearly 51% of all college males have binged drank and nearly 40% of all female students have done it also. All in all, nearly 42% of all college students have reported that they binge drink. Statistics also show that on nearly any college campus, 70% of the student body participates in binge drinking. That is more than half of the student body and out of that 70% nearly half of them binge more than once a week. Nearly half of the college binge drinkers have five or more alcohol-related problems on campus. They may be caught by campus security, or they may partake in vandalism and other destructive activities. It is common to see that most binge drinkers are students under the age of 21 and a member of a fraternity or a sorority. Most college binge drin