It found young unemployed people were more vulnerable to experience binge-drinking, depression, poor diet, smoking and drug misuse.
Now aged 54 and married with a child, he said he did not connect his experiences at school with years of under-achievement at work, a failed marriage and binge-drinking until he had therapy after a breakdown in April 2005.
While binge-drinking rates have fallen among boys over the past 10 years, "binge-drinking rates among girls really haven't changed much over a 15-plus-year period, " said Dr. Robert Brewer, of the alcohol program division of the CDC's national Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
Although the study doesn't include data after 2002, the rates of binge drinking -- and drinking in general -- may be even higher now.
"Although binge drinking is more of a problem among men and boys, binge drinking is an important and under-recognized women's health issue, " said Dr. Thomas Frieden, CDC director.
Twenty-two percent of Milwaukee respondents confessed to binge drinking, or having five or more drinks on one occasion--also the highest on our list.
After a surge in binge drinking during the mid-1990s, Western Europe has sobered up substantially as greater affluence, education and the professionalization of the work force have changed drinking patterns, according to Ben Baumberg, policy and research officer at the IAS who authored the European Commission's report.
The greatest frequency of binge drinking is found among women aged 18-34 and high-school-age girls.
It leads to false "social norming" - people thinking that everyone else is binge drinking so why shouldn't they.
And not only because the main character, the low-life aristocrat of drug dealing and binge drinking, Johnny "Rooster" Byron is played by Mark Rylance in a performance of stomping brilliance.
This tracks with the other major survey, Monitoring the Future, which looks at alcohol use and, specifically, binge drinking among eight, 10 and 12th-graders, in terms of having had five plus drinks in a row at least once in the past two weeks.
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Around 40% of college students engage in binge drinking frequently enough that they might qualify for the diagnosis -- but only 5% of graduates over 26 are current alcoholics.
While the amount of alcohol needed to really wreck a person varies by size, gender and genetics, most studies quantify "binge drinking" as consuming more than five drinks in a night--or more than three drinks in one to two hours.
To a large extent this reflected the shocking growth in alcoholism and binge drinking, and to a lesser extent it reflected a genuine society-wide sense of malaise and hopelessness and a breakdown in the basic functionality of the public health system.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more American women are drinking more heavily than ever before: one in eight women binge drink -- defined as six drinks or more in one sitting -- about three times a month.
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