Why Heavy Drinking Doesn’t Make You An Alcoholic
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iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Heavy drinking does not make you an alcoholic, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While one out of three adults drink excessively, Dr. William Brewer with the CDC says 90% of adults aren’t booze-dependent because they don’t have the chronic medical condition of alcohol dependency.
However, he says, “that doesn’t mean that the drinking that they’re doing isn’t still putting themselves and others at risk of harm.”
Every year, 88,000 people in the United States die from excessive drinking.
So how many glasses of wine or bottles of beer are safe to drink? For women, that is no more than one drink a day, and for men, no more than two a day.
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