Originally Posted by
dcg 
Not to nitpick on a tangent, but that's not the medical definition of binge drinking. Your 8-10 beers per evening would be considered binge drinking if you did it only once or twice a week, but since you did it every night and were physiologically dependent on the alcohol, it's considered drinking alcoholically and not binge drinking.
CDC Fact Sheet
Binge drinking is the most common, costly, and deadly pattern of excessive alcohol use in the United States.1,2,3 The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
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defines binge drinking as a pattern of drinking that brings a person’s blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to 0.08 grams percent or above. This typically happens when men consume 5 or more drinks or women consume 4 or more drinks in about 2 hours.4 Most people who binge drink are not alcohol dependent.
https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-she...e-drinking.htm