American women are starting to drink more alcohol and men are starting to drink less, a National Institutes of Health study out Monday shows.
"We found that over that period of time, differences in measures such as current drinking, number of drinking days per month, reaching criteria for an alcohol use disorder, and driving under the influence of alcohol in the past year, all narrowed for females and males," said Aaron White, a senior scientific advisor at National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, in a statement. "Males still consume more alcohol, but the differences between men and women are diminishing."
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