29 million
The number of adults older than 18 in the United States who in the past year engaged in high-risk drinking (four or more drinks in one day for a woman and five or more for a man), as of 2013. That's a 29.9 percent increase from a decade earlier (from 9.7 percent to 12.6 percent of the population), according to a new analysis of data from a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism survey.1
57.9%
The increase in high-risk drinking among women during that decade.1
65.2%
The increase in high-risk drinking among adults 65 and older during that decade.1
57%
The percent decline in binge drinking (five or more drinks in a row) among teenagers from the most recent peak in the late 1990s until 2016, according to the national Monitoring the Future study.2 In 1997, 21.9 percent of the eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders surveyed reported a binge-drinking episode in the past two weeks; by 2016 that fell to 9.4 percent.
1Grant B.F., et al. (2017). Prevalence of 12-month alcohol use, high-risk drinking, and DSM-IV alcohol use disorder in the United States, 2001–2002 to 2012–2013. Results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. JAMA Psychiatry; 74(9):911–923. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2017.2161
2Johnston, L.D., O'Malley, P.M., Miech, R.A., Bachman, J.G., & Schulenberg, J.E. (2017). Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975–2016: Overview, key findings on adolescent drug use. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan.
