A new study has found that people who work long hours are more likely to drink too much, leading to more issues down the line.
Researchers in Finland looked at data from 61 studies involving 333,693 people in 14 countries, and discovered that people who work more than 48 hours per week are 13 percent more likely to engage in risky drinking than those who work 35-40 hours, NPR reports. In Europe, risky drinking is more than 14 drinks every week for women and more than 21 drinks for men; in the United States, it's seven or more drinks per week for women and more than 14 drinks for men.
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