Binge drinking is a problem for roughly one of every five women between 11th grade and age 35, according to the results of a survey published today by the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC opened the results of their 2011 study with some sobering statistics: Excessive alcohol use accounted for an estimated average of 23,000 deaths annually between 2001-2005, and binge drinking counted for half of those deaths. As for the survey results, while women ages 18-24 demonstrated the most likelihood to binge among females (24.2 percent), they were closely followed by women ages 25-34 and high schoolers, though the high school average was brought down by relatively lower use among freshmen and sophomores. Roughly two of every five high schoolers reported some alcohol consumption within the month leading up to the CDC survey.
