Three drinks and you're out

Three drinks and you're out

"THREE glasses of wine during dinner is about to be redefined as a binge-drinking episode under the Federal Government's new official drinking guidelines to be released next month.
In what one health professional has slammed as a message that 'makes no sense at all', the guidelines will say that having more than four standard drinks a day constitutes a binge. An average glass of wine is 1.5 standard drinks.

'That means that if a man is sharing a bottle with his wife and takes a slightly larger share, that he's had a binge,' said Paul Haber, the medical director of Drug Health Services Addiction Medicine at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

Former health minister Tony Abbott said Australia was now in a 'moral panic' about alcohol and has accused the Federal Government of ignoring illicit drugs."