Who Drinks the Most Alcohol?

8. People employed in the arts and in the leisure and hospitality industries are nearly three times as likely to be "problem drinkers" as those employed in education, social services, and health care.

George Washington University Medical Center researchers compared the alcoholism rates of various professions:

Arts/leisure/hospitality tops the chart at 15 percent, followed by construction and mining at 14.7, retail at 9.7, finance and real estate tied at 9.2, and transportation at 8.2. At only 7.2 percent, professional hunters and fishermen are less than half as likely as artists to be alcoholics. For education/health/social services, it's 5.4 percent. Public administrators trail the pack at 5.3 percent.

Lynora Williams et al. (2008): Workplace screening and brief intervention: what employers can and should do about excessive alcohol use. A report for Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems, a project of the George Washington University Medical Center

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