Randy Parker Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Four of the 10 counties in the nation with the biggest increase in heavy drinking are in Northern Kentucky, a new study finds, and local officials acknowledged Thursday that they are mystified by those results. Bracken, Mason, Lewis and Owen counties are on that list, which Kentucky dominates: Nine of the 10 counties are in the Bluegrass State. No. 1 is Loving County, deep in west Texas. Loving County, Texas, and Bracken County are also 1-2 on the study's list of the 10 counties with the highest increase of heavy drinking among men; Bracken's men registered an 88.8 percent increase. On the list of 10 counties with the biggest increase in heavy drinking among women, the only Kentucky county is Lawrence, where the women had a 124.4 percent increase. The study defined "heavy drinking" as more than one drink a day for women and two for men. Four NKY counties tops in heavy drinking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plantmanky Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 How can those counties populations be high enough to make this list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Parker Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 How can those counties populations be high enough to make this list? It's based on percentages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plantmanky Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 It's based on percentages. Gott ya, so 5 people in Bracken co are drunks, theres only 10 in the county, 50% are heavy drinkers. Got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spindoc Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 It's all due to basketball anxiety. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plantmanky Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 3 of them being on the river, could make you wonder if its something in the water. Owen Co doesnt surprise me, wife works there, I get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDAWGS19 Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Gott ya, so 5 people in Bracken co are drunks, theres only 10 in the county, 50% are heavy drinkers. Got it. 3 of them being on the river, could make you wonder if its something in the water. Owen Co doesnt surprise me, wife works there, I get it. I'm innocent... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Schue Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 3 of them being on the river, could make you wonder if its something in the water. Owen Co doesnt surprise me, wife works there, I get it. Kentucky River goes through Owen Co. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIPTON BASH Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 So it's an average of two drinks a day that makes you a heavy drinker or 14 a week? Am I the only one who thinks that's a weird threshold? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcpapa Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 So it's an average of two drinks a day that makes you a heavy drinker or 14 a week? Am I the only one who thinks that's a weird threshold? Unless you're a gal. Then it's one a day. If that's the threshold, I know about eleventy billion heavy drinkers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDEaston Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Well that proves it, I'm a drunk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHSPanther23 Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 88.8% increase in Bracken County? Wow. Why are the women drinking so heavily in Lawrence County? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDAWGS19 Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 M 88.8% increase in Bracken County? Wow. Why are the women drinking so heavily in Lawrence County? Well, I did leave town 5 years ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SportsGuy41017 Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 So Little Randy creates so much havoc there that they are now drunks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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