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Binge drinking adults (3 year, %)
(3350)
Metric type
- Help text
- DISCONTINUED DATA - Final available dataset: 2006-08. This is the estimated percentage of adults aged 16 and over that binge drink. The data is based on modelled estimates using data from the Health Survey for England. Binge drinking in adults is defined separately for men and women. Men are defined as having indulged in binge drinking if they had consumed 8 or more units of alcohol on the heaviest drinking day in the last seven days. For women the cut off was 6 or more units of alcohol.
Harmful drinking is a significant public health problem in the UK and is associated with a wide range of health problems, including brain damage, alcohol poisoning, chronic liver disease, breast cancer, skeletal muscle damage, mental ill-health and social problems. Alcohol plays a role in many accidents, acts of violence and other instances of criminal behaviour. Nationally between 780,000 and 1.3 million children are affected by their parents' alcohol misuse. Such children are four times more likely to suffer from a psychiatric disorder by the age of 15 than the national average and are at increased risk of aggressive behaviour, delinquency, hyperactivity and other forms of conduct disorder. There are particular risks associated with drink driving, alcohol consumption in the workplace or during the working day, and drinking during pregnancy.
- Modified
- 23 Feb 2022
- Data last updated
- 13 Apr 2021
- Short label
- Binge drinking adults (3 year average, %)
- Status
- Discontinued
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- Per cent
- Dataset
- Adult healthy lifestyle
- Collection
- Local Health
- Source
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID)
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