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Top 10% of US drinkers down 10 drinks per day
The top 10% of American drinkers guzzle approximately 10 alcoholic drinks per day, new research has shown.
Top 10% of American drinkers consume 10 drinks per dayThe figures were detailed in a book by Philip J. Cook, called Paying the Tab, which examined alcohol control in the US using data from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC).
It showed the top 10% of drinkers – comprising 24 million adults aged over 18-years-old – accounted for more than half of the total amount of alcohol consumed each year.
This equates to roughly four-and-a-half bottles 750ml bottles of Jack Daniel’s a week, 18 bottles of wine or three 24-can cases of beer per person.
“I agree it’s hard to imagine consuming 10 drinks a day,” Cook told the Washington Post.
“There are a remarkable number of people who drink a couple of six packs a day, or a pint of whisky.”
Paying the Tab explores destructive drinking, and concludes that the US would have to enforce tougher regulations on alcohol consumption in order to reduce the costs of excessive drinking.