Simply put, binge drinking refers to drinking more than double the lower risk guidelines for alcohol in one session. Binge drinking or heavy episodic drinking is a modern epithet for drinking alcoholic beverages with the primary intention of becoming

Even if you don’t drink alcohol every day, you could be a binge drinker if you:

• tend to drink quickly
• regularly drink more than the lower risk guidelines in a single session
• sometimes drink to get drunk.

If you find it hard to stop drinking once you have started, you could also have a problem with binge drinking and possibly Aalcohol dependence.