re: If I personally kill a couple fifths of liquor a week, am I a drunk?

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The broad strokes about alcohol consumption, Willenbring says, are fairly simple. Low risk drinking, “according to the NIAAA, for men, is no more than four drinks in one day, and no more than 14 drinks in a week.” For women, he says, “it’s no more than three drinks in any day and no more than seven drinks in any week.”

Those figures may seem to contradict recommendations made by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which call for no more than one drink per day for women, and no more than two drinks per day for men, but Willenbring says it’s just that the other guidelines present the number of drinks as a daily average, as opposed to offering two sets of guidelines—by both day and week. “It’s important that both the daily and the weekly limits be considered, because, for example, if a man has four drinks in one day, or has four drinks every day then he’s going to violate the weekly [total for low risk drinking].”

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