Do you think these stats are reliable? I'm aware that alcoholism affects 10% of people but I find this kind of staggering.
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Yes. Some people do that. But it’s highly unlikely that 24 million Americans do that every day of every week for weeks at a time. The number of people with that level of alcohol consumption is likely a small fraction of that
Your hyperbole aside, to get those numbers, the study assumes that every bit of alcohol bought in the US is being consumed (no floaters?) and that none of it is being consumed by teenagers. Those two things are obviously false. The study overstates consumption by a factor of ~2
