In 2022, it was estimated that around 63 percent of those aged 26 to 29 years in the United States were current alcohol drinkers, the highest rate of all age groups. Those aged 26 to 29 also had the highest rates of binge alcohol use. Although the legal age to consume alcohol in the United States is 21, around 31.6 percent of those aged 18 to 20 years were already current alcohol users.
Binge drinking in the United States
Binge drinking is commonly defined as consuming five or more alcoholic drinks on one occasion for men and four or more drinks for women. Binge drinking is most common among adults in their 20s, and more common among Hispanics and Whites than other races or ethnicities. The states with the highest prevalence of binge drinking are Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Montana, while West Virginia has the lowest prevalence of binge drinking of all U.S. states. In 2021, almost 22 percent of the population of Wisconsin binge drank in the past 30 days, with the overall prevalence rate in the United States around 15 percent at that time.
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