HOUSTON COUNTY, Ala. (WTVY) - St. Patrick’s Day is linked to Irish heritage, the color green and typically drinking, specifically binge drinking. “St. Patty’s, along with our anniversaries, are our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excessive drinking is on the rise for midlife women. For decades, data indicated that men were more likely than women to develop ...

North Dakota is the state with the highest rate of binge-drinking, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show. Binge drinking is defined by the Substance Abuse and Mental ...

It’s not just fraternity brothers who are guzzling one beer too many. Women and high school girls are equally likely to drink too much. According to the latest survey from the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

High-intensity drinking, which involves consuming alcohol at levels twice the gender-specific binge drinking thresholds, is gaining attention for its risks. Studies show that people engaging in ...

Take heart — scientists say they may have found a way to prevent irregular heart rhythms caused by binge drinking, a phenomenon so common at Christmastime that it’s called “holiday heart syndrome.” ...

Approximately 37 million adults in the United States engage in binge drinking once a week on average, consuming more than 17 billion alcoholic drinks annually, according to a study using Centers for ...

Spring break is a wild time for some college students nationwide. It can also be an extremely dangerous time, because some students engage in reckless behavior, taking drinks from strangers they just ...

Though some generations of Americans are drinking less than those before them, it is still estimated that one in six adults are binge drinkers, per a newly released annual report. In some states and ...