Is drinking heavily once per month or two months risky?

The risk is more likely to be associated with what you do when you're drinking rather than any long term medical problems. Up to half of all emergency hospital admissions are drink related - trips and falls, fights and traffic accidents. read more

Part of this is what you mean by “heavily.” If you define it as two or three drinks, you are probably OK. If you drink many drinks to where you pass out, there are risks well covered in some other answers. read more

Binge drinking even once a month is really bad, if you’re going to keep doing it all year round, for 12 months. If you asked only about drinking, then my answer would not be the same. Binge drinking means, literally drinking till you aren’t able to have proper conversations anymore. read more

2 or more heavy drinking days a week this many have an alcohol use disorder In short, the more drinks on any day and the more heavy drinking days over time, the greater the risk—not only for an alcohol use disorder, but also for other health and personal problems. read more