Alcohol consumption stats in U.S

This is just like the Herpies comersial that says 1 in 4 people have it.

I love to be in a room with a group of people and remind them of that comersial. I then say "not it".

Yeah this is totally true. I know people who drink up to 20 drinks a day. Alcoholism is rampant in this country and destroys more lives than all the other drugs combined. But it's legal so we turn a blind eye and everyone thinks it's acceptable to drink alcohol when it really is the same thing as meth, heroine, marijuana, etc. Not as addictive as other drugs but I would say it's just as if not more dangerous. No one high on heroine is getting in a car and driving a 2 ton death machine

Bummer. Alcohol as many on here will soon find out is a complete life wrecker. Kills relationships with friends, families, job, spouses...And kills hundreds of thousands, wtf!!, every year, many in auto 'accidents' Alcoholism, It's a friggin killer disease

NoWayThisisReal wrote:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/25/think-you-drink-a-lot-this-chart-will-tell-you/

Do you really believe that 1 in 10 Americans over 18 drink 10 or more alcoholic drinks per day? That seems ridiculous. 1 in 100 I might believe, but 10% seems like too many. Do 1 in 10 people that you know really do this??

The distribution is not even among socioeconomic and geographic classes. YOU probably don't know anybody who drinks that much. But try rural West Virginia, or rust belt towns in Ohio. People in poverty are much more likely to be alcoholics (and that is what 10 drinks a day is). It's a huge public health crisis.

This is kind of a terrible example, but you probably don't know many Trump voters either; yet they'll make up nearly half the electorate come November. Oddly, there is a pretty large intersection between those two demographics. Poor, rural, working class. The only difference is that alcoholism is prevalent in poor black communities as well; "Trumpism" largely is not.

you live in a bubble wrote:

try rural West Virginia

Appalachia is a relic of colonial times when the average person 14 or older had 7 drinks a day. Average, not 1 in 10.

They rebelled against George Washington to keep their whiskey. They invented NASCAR to transport their whiskey. Whiskey is woven into their destiny.

NoWayThisisReal wrote:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/25/think-you-drink-a-lot-this-chart-will-tell-you/

Do you really believe that 1 in 10 Americans over 18 drink 10 or more alcoholic drinks per day? That seems ridiculous. 1 in 100 I might believe, but 10% seems like too many. Do 1 in 10 people that you know really do this??

I'm surprised it's not more. I live next door to a convenience store in middle America. Hell, I probably average eight myself.

Better alcoholics than muslims

They rebelled against George Washington to sell their whiskey to the coastal cities on the other side of Cumberland gap. Easier to transport a gallon of whiskey than a wagon full of corn. George Washington's finance minister Alexander Hamilton blocked that, because he was in bed with the eastern merchants who imported west indian rum-so he rammed through a very regressive tax on the small western distilleries to protect his cronies-choking western economies to a subsistence existence. Why that SOB is on the 10 dollar bill is beyond me. It should be Aaron Burr.And the rebellion was not centered in Appalachia, but more around Pittsburgh-though all areas west of the Cumberland Gap were sympathetic.

Bad Wigins wrote:

you live in a bubble wrote:

try rural West Virginia

Appalachia is a relic of colonial times when the average person 14 or older had 7 drinks a day. Average, not 1 in 10.

They rebelled against George Washington to keep their whiskey. They invented NASCAR to transport their whiskey. Whiskey is woven into their destiny.

hehateme wrote:

Better alcoholics than muslims

Amen

Alcoholics? You mean frat bros?

duuuuudeeee wrote:

Alcoholics? You mean frat bros?

Do you really think that all alcoholics are college-aged kids just out to have a good time? If so, you really have no idea what alcoholism is.

MakeAmericaGreat wrote:

hehateme wrote:

Better alcoholics than muslims

Amen

Close to 10,000 U.S. motor vehicle deaths annually are attributed to alcohol-impaired drivers.

hmmmmhkjkghjgh wrote:

duuuuudeeee wrote:

Alcoholics? You mean frat bros?

Do you really think that all alcoholics are college-aged kids just out to have a good time? If so, you really have no idea what alcoholism is.

when did i say that all alcoholics are college-aged kids? i said that frat bros are more than just guys having fun once a week. They are freaking alcoholics.

No way this is real. Here's an article that quotes the Washington Post article AND Phillip J. Cook, the author of the book who came up with the data quoted in the Washington Post article.http://vinepair.com/booze-news/10-americans-consume-10-drinks-per-day-no/In short, the article points out that Cook, in footnotes to his book, says...

"[Cook] used data from 2001-2002 from NESARC, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, which had a representative sample of 43,093 adults over the age of 18. But following this footnote, we find that Cook corrected these data for under-reporting by multiplying the number of drinks each respondent claimed they had drunk by 1.97 in order to comport with the previous year’s sales data for alcohol in the US. Why? It turns out that alcohol sales in the US in 2000 were double what NESARC’s respondents—a nationally representative sample, remember—claimed to have drunk."

So, Cook doubles reported consumption to make reported consumption equal actual sales consumption. Thus, people who reported taking 5 drinks/day were doubled to 10.

This is Cook's assumption, but it's not a good assumption. It's far more likely that many in the 50% who reported not drinking at all or drinking very seldom were occasional drinkers.

For example, I grew up Baptist and Baptists don't drink... except, oh wait, some of them do, but they're not going to admit to it in a survey!

It would be an interesting math problem to calculate how much these teetotalers would have to drink to come up with the actual consumption reported by sales.

i drink about 42-48 beers a week .. its way to much but hey i like to eat clean and drink dirty

duuuuudeeee wrote:

when did i say that all alcoholics are college-aged kids? i said that frat bros are more than just guys having fun once a week. They are freaking alcoholics.

You have absolutely no clue what alcoholism looks like. It's not a f*cking party.

Alcoholism is my grandfather who used to get increasingly agitated as the evening wore on and his bottle of Jack slowly drained. He'd rant and pound the table (luckily, never actually hit anyone in the family, as far as I know, which is a good thing; he was a semipro boxer back in the day). Eventually he'd pass out and piss himself. Every f*cking night.

Alcoholism is the homeless guy who used to sleep under the stairs of the crappy apartment my girlfriend and I rented after college. He'd hang out there and sip Listerine because he couldn't afford real booze. We offered him food a few times and he told us to f*ck off and buy him a bottle. We did not. He came and went for several months, looking worse each time, and then disappeared for good.

Not even remotely accurate to compare a frat guy drinking recreationally to real alcoholism, which is an incredibly messed up situation that takes years to develop.

I believe the stat. The beer distributors and liquor stores here in Pa are always stacked to the roof with an endless supply of inventory and there is always a steady stream of customers.

Somebody is drinking the stuff in copious amounts.

runrincerepeat wrote:

i drink about 42-48 beers a week .. its way to much but hey i like to eat clean and drink dirty

Are you able to run decently well while maintaining that?

I average about 2 beers a night, which is no problem. I usually stick to "session" beers, at about 5% ABV. There are some really good session IPAs on the market now. But if I go much above that or upgrade to double IPAs or similar, I feel like garbage the next day and it definitely impacts my workouts.

I am just building some base.. I average 50-60 miles a week ( I never wear a watch I just run by feel) .. and also bike around 100 miles a week and lift for 2-3 hours a week.

Dont really have a race in mind until next april a half marathon.

I also drink low abv beer like Budweiser or whatever