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Christy Osborne, 40, who went sober in 2020, said she wasn’t aware her daily habit of having three glasses of wine every evening when the kids had gone to bed was classed as “binge drinking”.
She said: “When we think of binge drinking, we think of that person sitting with a brown paper bag on a park bench.
“In reality, it could be like me - a mum sitting at home on the sofa with two kids upstairs, finishing off the bottle of wine, not remembering what she's watching on TV.”
For some, however, having four pints of beer is hardly enough to feel drunk, let alone wasted. The oversimplified definition of binge drinking contributes to a lack of understanding about what binge drinking really is, and its true prevalence, experts say.
