In a given year, top 10% of drinkers consume over 50% of all alcohol consumed.

[Zaap]

It's time those damn 10%'rs started paying their fair share of rounds.

 

[Nebor]

This is fairly surprising. I never would have guessed that so many people were drinking so much.

 

[BUnit1701]

It's time those damn 10%'rs started paying their fair share of rounds.

If you have bought enough rounds to feel cheated, your probably in the 10%.

 

[Jhhnn]

I don't trust the methodology. As a former alcoholic, I was at the 99th percentile, and I drank 10 drinks a day or somewhat more.

Experience tells me that the rest of the top 10% of adults don't drink nearly that much.

 

[Vic]

I suddenly feel much better about my own drinking.

 

[zanejohnson]

74 drinks a week is heroic.

that's absolutely insane!!!

at my very worst of alcoholism i would drink 9-10 beers at a setting, but i couldnt do it every night! maybe like 4 nights a week at the very worst!

i barely drink at all nowdays, could get pretty tipsy on 3 or 4 strong beers...

 

[mizzou]

I deal much of my life with drunks and I am sadly not surprised. Alcoholism is not a disease, it's an addictive disorder that causes people to habitually destroy themselves and those around them.

I drink about two or one and a half bottles of wine every month. I'm actually surprised I'm that high on the curve!

 

[mizzou]

I don't trust the methodology. As a former alcoholic, I was at the 99th percentile, and I drank 10 drinks a day or somewhat more.

Experience tells me that the rest of the top 10% of adults don't drink nearly that much.

congrats, how long have you been clean?!

 

[Slew Foot]

The general rule for anything is that 20% of people will use 80% of a resource. I must say Im kinda shocked that 10% of Americans drink 10 drinks a day, thats quite frankly, disgusting.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

I don't trust the methodology. As a former alcoholic, I was at the 99th percentile, and I drank 10 drinks a day or somewhat more.

Experience tells me that the rest of the top 10% of adults don't drink nearly that much.

One of the alcoholics I know was drinking two fifths of vodka a day before they almost died and changed their lives.

 

[Moonbeam]

I guess if you are a libertarian and hate a nanny state, there is nothing to do but let those with a genetic inclination to become alcoholics die from the disease. I feel, however, that it is appropriate for the state to be allowed to prevent alcoholics from obtaining their poison. This is just another area where the judgmental pretend that the weaknesses of others are a matter of choice. We tell children the rules and alcoholics are as dependent and mentally immature as children in this area. The disease of alcoholism is a tragedy for society and costs more in damage than it would in prevention. But there is money and political contributions to politicians from the producers of this toxin to be made and spent.

 

[Genx87]

I guess if you are a libertarian and hate a nanny state, there is nothing to do but let those with a genetic inclination to become alcoholics die from the disease. I feel, however, that it is appropriate for the state to be allowed to prevent alcoholics from obtaining their poison. This is just another area where the judgmental pretend that the weaknesses of others are a matter of choice. We tell children the rules and alcoholics are as dependent and mentally immature as children in this area. The disease of alcoholism is a tragedy for society and costs more in damage than it would in prevention. But there is money and political contributions to politicians from the producers of this toxin to be made and spent.

So you want to bring back the failed policy of prohibition?
Interesting given your opposite stance in the other thread. You a conservative now?

Police state America is right wing America. Glad to see that on drugs even conservatives are starting to see the real meaning of an authoritarian state.

 

[Moonbeam]

So you want to bring back the failed policy of prohibition?
Interesting given your opposite stance in the other thread. You a conservative now?

Nice example of how when you approach truth you find paradox that can be resolved only at a higher level of understanding.

I can do only so much to help you there because the conditions that cause paradox can't be removed so long as you hold the unconscious assumptions that self understanding can potentially gain the insight into that can create such a revelation. Truth comes with a shift in perspective that is enabled by conscious struggle, an insight that is not governed by left brained linear thinking, the latter of which is something to which Western minds are habituated.

What I can tell you is this:

Because 90% of the population does not seem to have a problem with alcohol I would not be one to push for prohibition. There is a difference between a nanny state and an authoritarian state. What state does a child live in? What is the difference between child care and child abuse? Is physical and mental health a human good. How do we know?

I was thinking more along the lines that we live so much in a competitive state me me me state that problems like alcoholism, mental health, child development, and a host of others always take a back seat in our current society based mainly on the self indulgence of CBD induced generalized state of fear, the terror for example, that the state will tax you for something because the CBD causes a state of emotional poverty that turns into envy blindness and greed, and that if these conditions weren't there to the extent they were, we would have a society with a greater capacity to care.

It would be such a society that might pay more attention to how to develop ways to treat the fact that some folk are genetically predisposed to alcoholism and that medical ways to treat the disease, the identification of those susceptible to it from an early age, and the provision of special education and monitoring might take place. As with many forms of addictive behavior, the use of alcohol becomes a way to avoid feeling emotional pain. In a more progressive society more would and can be done to help people deal with self hate, the root of such pain, the inculcated lie that there was something wrong with us that the whole human race experienced as children.

The problem with the mentally ill, and that would be all of us, is that the mentally ill love misery as company and don't want anybody else to get well. Everything we do is designed to f us in the ass. That won't change without conscious awareness of that fact first.

 

[zephyrprime]

This is fairly surprising. I never would have guessed that so many people were drinking so much.

It's all the alcoholics of the world. I'm not even kidding.

 

[BoberFett]

10 drinks in one day isn't unfathomable, I can put that many beers away floating around all day on a pontoon boat. I don't do it often though. I probably fall into the 6-15/week category.

I'm surprised that so many people basically don't drink at all.


Edit: Leave it to Moonbeam the fuckwit to make this a political issue. Kindly go fellate a donkey, you worthless twat.

 

[fskimospy]

10 drinks in one day isn't unfathomable, I can put that many beers away floating around all day on a pontoon boat. I don't do it often though. I probably fall into the 6-15/week category.

I'm surprised that so many people basically don't drink at all.

Edit: Leave it to Moonbeam the fuckwit to make this a political issue. Kindly go fellate a donkey, you worthless twat.

That was the biggest surprise to me: that half of Americans effectively do not drink. It's surprising to me that if someone were to have a glass of wine with dinner most nights that would make them among the highest consumers of alcohol in the whole country.

As others mentioned though I'd really like to see a demographic breakdown of this. My guess is that the results are highly demographically dependent.

 

[Slew Foot]

Is ths data self reported? Because if it is, you can probably double the amount that was reported if you want accurate data.

 

[OverVolt]

Fifth decile for me.

Unrelated to downing an actual fifth. Seriously...

 

[OverVolt]

Is ths data self reported? Because if it is, you can probably double the amount that was reported if you want accurate data.

Its not that hard to figure out how many drinks you consume per week on average. For starters there are 52 weeks in a year. Have you had more or less than 52 drinks in a year?

 

[Linux23]

Yea, probably. Stop drinking for a bit and see if you feel fine.

oddly enough, i just get a bit cranky for a day or two and then i'm back to normal.

maybe slightly depressed for a few days too but once i double pump on vitamins i'm right as rain.

 

[Slew Foot]

Its not that hard to figure out how many drinks you consume per week on average. For starters there are 52 weeks in a year. Have you had more or less than 52 drinks in a year?

yeah but most people dont want to admit they drink a ton so they say they drink less than they do.

 

[Linux23]

74 drinks a week is heroic.

that's absolutely insane!!!

at my very worst of alcoholism i would drink 9-10 beers at a setting, but i couldnt do it every night! maybe like 4 nights a week at the very worst!

i barely drink at all nowdays, could get pretty tipsy on 3 or 4 strong beers...

wuss.

 

[Linux23]

The general rule for anything is that 20% of people will use 80% of a resource. I must say Im kinda shocked that 10% of Americans drink 10 drinks a day, thats quite frankly, disgusting.

don't judge me monkey.

 

[Moonbeam]

10 drinks in one day isn't unfathomable, I can put that many beers away floating around all day on a pontoon boat. I don't do it often though. I probably fall into the 6-15/week category.

I'm surprised that so many people basically don't drink at all.


Edit: Leave it to Moonbeam the fuckwit to make this a political issue. Kindly go fellate a donkey, you worthless twat.

I DID. I posted specifically with you in mind.

 

[BoberFett]

I DID. I posted specifically with you in mind.

You did fellate a donkey? You're sick. Stop abusing animals you sick fuck.