<p>5 drinks is not binge drinking. That is not much for an evening in the Pub in the UK. England may have a worse drinking problem than some other European countries. A lot - probably the vast majority - of the social life is built around pubs and drinking. It has been forever including many years ago when I was a teenager. But the ‘binge drinking’ among young people seems to be a more recent phenomena. It really is excessive drinking - not 5 drinks. At holidays such as new years the police and ambulance services are kept very busy with carting people to the hospital.</p>