A new study says that 20% of all German students would "drink excessively". While that number is lower than any guesstimate I would have come up with, what makes me angry/worries me is the definition of "excessive drinking" used.
A person who drinks excessively is a person who binge drinks more than once a month.
Okay, one might say, two drinking binges a month could be seen as excessive given the rather indulgence-hostile tide of the times, critzizing tobacco, fat foods and alcohol all the time. But the definition of "binge drinking" is rather laughable: It is defined as having the equivalent of five or more .25 liter beers on one occasion. Okay, let's put this into everyday beverage sizes: It's two-and-a half large metric beers or two and a quarter pints. Given that definition of "binge drinking" most of my weekends are drinking binges and most working men who enjoy a beer or two after work a close to daily binges. That's stupid.
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