More Americans Admit a Heavy Drinking Day in Past Year, CDC Says

Johannes Simon/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — In the first three months of 2016, slightly more U.S. adults say they had at least one “heavy drinking day” in the past year – 25.4 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Using a large national survey, CDC researchers found that the percentage of men who had at least one day of heavy drinking was 32.4 percent (higher than the 2015 figure of 29.9 percent) and 18.9 percent of women said the same (the 2015 figure was 17.4 percent, but the female figures are close enough that they might be due, statistically, to chance).

For both sexes, the numbers are significantly higher than they were a decade ago.

Although the report from the CDC only provides new data, it could spark more discussions about alcohol and binge drinking.

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