By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay More than one in four U.S. teens
and young adults admit they are binge drinkers, according to a
report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC). In the United States, binge drinking is defined as having
four or more drinks for women, and five or more drinks for men,
over a couple of hours — numbers that are different because men
and women metabolize alcohol differently. And it's not just
teens who are affected, more than 33 million adults have
reported binge drinking in the past year, according to the
report. "Binge drinking is a very large health and social
problem" and one that has gone largely unnoticed, CDC director
Dr. Thomas Frieden said during a noon press conference Tuesday.
"Most people who binge drink are not alcoholic. It may be
because binge drinking has not been recognized as a problem
(that) it has not decreased in the past 15 years." Nonetheless,
the toll of binge drinking is enormous. More than 79,000 deaths
each year in the United States res