If you ever hang out with some actual alcoholics, you'll see how ludicrous that statement looks fairly quickly. Many of them report regularly consuming over 30

If you ever hang out with some actual alcoholics, you'll see how ludicrous that statement looks fairly quickly. Many of them report regularly consuming over 30 drinks a day. There is a huge spectrum. I've been mulling this study over since it hit the news a few days ago, and I haven't dug into the actual paper enough yet, but I'm wondering if they adequately controlled for under-reporting. A lot of people who say "one drink a day" really mean "3 or more drinks a day" and are either too ashamed or too self-deluded to be able to admit it-- whereas I suspect most people who say "less than one drink a day" are being more accurate because they can actually remember multiple 24-hour periods when they didn't drink (unlike a drinker who has or is developing a problem). Source: Have alcoholic tendencies myself, recently brought it down to 4-6 drinks a day but getting it lower is proving very difficult.