The question: Is binge drinking getting worse? - The Guardian 5th March 2008

This is, frankly, a statistical minefield. It doesn't help that in the words of the British Medical Association there is "no consensus on the definition" of binge drinking: the term used to mean a two-or three-day bender, but now refers to "heavy drinking, often with the intention of getting drunk, over an evening or similar time span", or to "the consumption of more than half the recommended maximum weekly number of alcohol units" in a single night.

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