Binge Drinking Rates Rising Among Young Women

What: A study in JAMA found that from 2021 to 2023, more women ages 18-25 reported binge drinking (31%) versus men of the same age (30%), a reversal of previous years’ trends. From 2017 to 2019 around 22% of women that age reported binge drinking in the past month, compared to around 29% of men the same age.

Key Line: “Sex-based differences in alcohol use have narrowed over the last decade,” Bryant Shuey, MD, MPH, and colleagues wrote. “Alcohol-related liver disease and mortality have increased more rapidly among young and middle-aged adult females than males, a trend that worsened beginning in 2020.”