Few know or care about safe drinking, report shows

More than a third of under-25s are binge-drinking on a weekly basis, a new report on the country’s drinking habits has found. However, few of them will know that they are courting trouble because hardly anyone surveyed for the report knew the guideline weekly limits for safe alcohol consumption or how many drinks constituted a binge.

Just 20 out of the 1,000 adults questioned were able to identify the limits as 11 standard drinks for women or 17 for men, spread out over the week, or knew that six or more standard drinks in one sitting is classified as a binge. Half of those questioned declined to even attempt the question, most stating they did not know what a standard drink was.