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The U.S. Federal Goverment, Department of Health and Human Services has established the definition of heavy drinking for women and men. For women it is considered more than one drink per day. For men, more than two drinks per day is heavy drinking. Hence, more than seven drinks a week for a female and 14 drinks a week for male are considered inappropriate, unhealthy, and heavy drinking.
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∙ 11y agoIf you have the known "allergic" response, that single drink can possibly trigger a desire, and/or compulsion to have a second, or more drinks. It is due to an enzyme imbalance, or missing enzyme that some people have (notably Native Americans), that causes their bodies to digest alcohol differently than "normal" people. The missing or deficient enzyme causes the drinker to develop a craving for another drink of alcohol. Each successive drink reinforces this craving phenomena, which, if there is an adequate supply, will result in the person becoming drunk. This is the basis of Alcoholism- the inability to stop once a person has consumed just one drink containing ethyl alcohol. It then is the first drink that starts the chain of events.
Gus G, recovering alcoholic, sober for over 20 years now.
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