What is binge drinking?

What is binge drinking?

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Binge drinking is sporadic and regular very heavy bats of drinking. So it might be that you'd start drinking on a Friday evening and go through to a Sunday afternoon. This means that you are constantly topping off your alcohol or it maybe a couple nights in the week or maybe a whole week of drinking and a couple weeks off it. Binge drinking would suggest in binges and you have times of stopping but it will be very heavy drinking.