True, but in my experience many people keep up the weekend binges well into adulthood, and for some it progresses to (more) serious forms of alcohol dependence.

True, but in my experience many people keep up the weekend binges well into adulthood, and for some it progresses to (more) serious forms of alcohol dependence. I think an article like this might do a lot of good precisely by understating this binging behavior, as it emphasizes the benefits of not binging without focusing too much on how bad binge-drinking is.