[DanBC]

Fifteen drinks a week is not problem drinking. Fifteen drinks a week is -depending what you drink- under English government safe drinking limits for men and only just over for women.

Problem drinking anything over the current safe limits which are "two to three units per day, without saving units up for the weekend, with some days drink free (for men)".

To give some context: Alcoholism detox medically assissted treatment starts when the person is drinking forty 40 units per day unless you have a comorbid mental health problem when they drop it to 30 units a day unless it's a severe enduring problem when they drop it to 20 units a day. Under those amounts you get outpatient treatment. You're going to struggle to get treatment for fifteen units a week unless you're under 18.

40 units a day would be one litre of spirits with an ABV of 40%.

Every day.

http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/QS11/chapter/introduction-an...