Do you binge drink?

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5 drinks in 2 hours is the new 'clinical' definition, but it is really an appropriation of the term.  "binge" used to mean an extended, days-long, (to a greater or lesser extent) life-jeopardizing affair.  now it's the very mild 5 in 2 hours, which won't even get a reasonably fat male over the legal limit.

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5 drinks in 2 hours is binge drinking? That's pathetic.

But, what is defined as 1 drink? Down here every bottle is required to show you how many "standard drinks" are in what you're buying. A bottle of wine is typically 7-9, one normal strength beer is about 1.3 (Light beer, 0.9). A 700ml bottle of vodka is about 21. Do they do anything similar in America these days?

no labeling, though the term is still used and defined the same way (12oz beer at 5%, 1.5oz shot at 40%, etc)