Binge drinking happens most in these parts of Orange County
Binge drinking happens most in these parts of Orange County
- February 11, 2026
- Andrew Noymer, Wen Public Health and CPIP affiliate, The Orange County Register, February 11, 2026
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Andrew Noymer, associate professor of population health and disease prevention at UC Irvine, issues a caution here. … “These are model-based. That means they don’t actually have data down to the zip code on who’s been binge drinking. They have a lot of data nationwide, and in California, about what the risk factors of binge drinking are — white, male, 17-23, unmarried, no car, no home ownership, college student, etc. — a laundry list of demographic characteristics. Then, for all of those demographic characteristics, including in combination with one another, they can say, based on nationwide data, what the binge drinking rates are.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.ocregister.com/2026/02/11/binge-drinking-happens-most-in-these-parts-of-orange-county/.
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