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Sunday, April 22, 2007

Press Release: ONE IN FOUR NYC MEN REPORT BINGE DRINKING


NEW YORK CITY – April 18, 2007 – One in four men in New York City (23%) report binge drinking, according to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's (the Department) most recent annual phone survey. Overall, nearly 900,000 New Yorkers (14%) reported binge drinking in 2005. Binge drinking is defined as having five or more drinks on one occasion during the past month. More than 1,400 New Yorkers died of alcohol-related causes in 2005; two out of three of these deaths were men. The city's binge drinking rates were lower than the national rates (24% of adults and 31% of men in 2005), but they have not changed since 2002.
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