The Centers for Disease Control defines binge drinking as 5 or more drinks for men, and 4 or more drinks for women. The CDC says 75 percent of alcohol consumed by US adults is in the form of binge drinking. They are advised by health educators to be responsible by limiting themselves to one drink per hour. But since social drinkers often attend social functions or events for five or more hours at a time, this consumption rate would label them as bingers. By this reasoning, careful drinkers could be both responsible and bingers at the same time! The current definition is clearly unrealistic and is apparently intended to inflate binge drinking statistics.