In the UK, a binge is considered as drinking six or more units of alcohol in one sitting for women, and eight or more for men. That is two large glasses of wine for a woman.

The number of colleagues I know who casually say shit like ‘can’t wait to get home and open a bottle of wine tonight’, or spend the entirety of Stoptober salivating over the chance to start drinking again is ridiculous, and I work in the NHS. Alcohol abuse is normalised and/or romanticised way too much in this country.

Luckily youth drinking seems to be on the decline: https://www.ias.org.uk/2023/03/28/last-orders-young-peoples-perspectives-on-the-decline-in-youth-drinking/ so that’s good.

I’ve had a bad few years since COVID.

I should probably go get my liver checked, but it’s honestly a touch scary to contemplate - and, to be honest, I’m not even entirely sure how I’d get that started. Chat to a GP, I guess.

But by definition, my alcohol consumption from my late teens to late 20s would be considered binge drinking.

Alcohol is a helluva drug.

My liver probably looks like a loaf of bread after a trip through the washing machine…