Fact 20

It is never safe or wise to drink heavily, although it is not nearly so very dangerous as usually portrayed in the media. For example, based on data from the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drugs, for a student who binges, (which they define as consuming four to five or more drinks on an occasion), the chance of a fatality is about one in 8,666,667 so called binges. Furthermore, fatalities are disproportionately found among those who have consumed over 20 drinks in less than two hours.