enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Alcohol use among college students - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_use_among_college...

    The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism reported in 2012, that more than 80% of college students drink alcohol, with estimated 40% report binge drinking in the past two weeks, and about 25% report having academic consequences because of their drinking. [11] 56% of students reported binge drinking once a week. [12]

  3. Alcohol and College: How Much Money Are Students Really Drinking?

    www.aol.com/news/2010-09-05-alcohol-college...

    With the average student taking five years to graduate and borrowing about $23,000 in the process, that means that more than 10% of all college loans are actually used to finance alcohol consumption.

  4. Alcohol advertising on college campuses - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_advertising_on...

    The lower average alcohol sale prices among on-premises establishments surrounding the college campus, the higher the college binge drinking rate". [1] Another study was completed by CASA at Columbia University on drinking rates among college students and the findings were that from 1993 to 2005, the rate of binge drinking had risen 16 percent.

  5. Binge drinking - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binge_drinking

    Stolle, Sack and Thomasius define binge drinking as episodic excessive drinking. [7] There is currently no worldwide consensus on how many drinks constitute a "binge", but in the United States, the term has been described in academic research to mean consuming five or more standard drinks (male), or four or more drinks (female), [12] over a two-hour period. [13]

  6. Younger people are drinking less alcohol. Here's why — and ...

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/younger-people-drinking...

    Conversely, more adults are binge drinking than in the past. The findings line up with recent survey results from Gallup that found the percentages of 18- to 34-year-olds who say that they drink ...

  7. Henry Wechsler - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wechsler

    Wechsler is noted for his studies of drinking by college students and for popularizing the term “binge drinking” to refer to the consumption of four alcoholic drinks by a woman on an occasion and five alcoholic drinks by a man. Wechsler has brought attention to the large number of problems students who drink at this level produce for ...

  8. Epidemiology of binge drinking - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_binge_drinking

    Despite having a legal drinking age of 21, binge drinking in the United States remains very prevalent among high school and college students. Using the popular 5/4 definition of "binge drinking", one study found that, in 1999, 44% of American college students (51% male, 40% female) engaged in this practice at least once in the past two weeks. [26]

  9. Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.