Binge Drinking — United States, 2011
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| Supplement Volume 62, Supplement, No. 3 November 22, 2013 PDF of this issue | | |
Binge Drinking — United States, 2011
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November 22, 2013 / 62(03);77-80Corresponding author: Dafna Kanny, Division of Population Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC. Telephone: 770-488-5411; E-mail: dkk3@cdc.gov.
Introduction
During 2001–2005, excessive alcohol use accounted for an estimated average of 80,000 deaths and 2.3 million years of potential life lost (YPLL) in the United States each year, and an estimated $223.5 billion in economic costs in 2006 (1). Binge drinking, defined as consuming four or more alcoholic drinks on one or more occasions for women and five or more drinks on one or more occasions for men, was responsible for more than half of these deaths, two-thirds of the YPLL (2), and three quarters of the economic costs (1). Reducing the prevalence of binge drinking among adults is also a leading health indicator in Healthy People 2020 (objective SA-14.3) (3).The binge drinking prevalence, frequency, and intensity analysis, and discussion that follows is part of the second CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report (CHDIR) (4). The 2011 CHDIR (5) was the first CDC report to assess disparities across a wide range of diseases, behavioral risk factors, environmental exposures, social determinants, and health-care access. The topic presented in this report is described in the criteria for the 2013 CHDIR Introduction (6). This report provides more current information on binge drinking measures, and updates information on the status of evidence-based strategies recommended to prevent binge drinking presented in the 2011 CHDIR. The purposes of this report are to discuss and raise awareness of differences in the characteristics of people who binge drink, and to prompt actions to reduce these disparities.
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