CDC Report: To the surprise of even health officials, it turns out that most deaths from drinking too much involve middle-aged adults -- not teens or college kids.

The Seattle Times reports:

Most of the estimated 1.5 billion binge-drinking episodes each year involve Americans 26 and older, Brewer said. But CDC researchers were surprised to find that people ages 35 to 64 accounted for 75 percent of America's roughly 2,200 alcohol-poisoning deaths each year from 2010 to 2012.

"Contrary to conventional wisdom, there's a lot of binge drinking that's going on by people who are post-college age," Brewer said in a telephone briefing Tuesday.

While binge drinking with hard liquor is more common among younger adults, middle-aged people typically binge on beer.

Should the drinking age be lowered to 18?