Get Up And Do Something: Heavy drinking raises risk of divorce

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Heavy drinking raises risk of divorce Feb 8th 2013, 11:43 Till death do us part may not apply to heavy drinkers, new research suggests. The more a person drinks, the more likely they are to end up divorced. The likelihood of divorce is especially high for those couples where only one partner hits the bottle frequently, researchers report in the May 2013 issue of the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. "The risk of divorce is estimated to be tripled when the husband's level [of] drinking is low and the wife's drinking is heavy, compared with couples where both drink lightly," study researcher Fartein Ask Torvik of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said in a statement.

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