Binge_Drinking_On_College_Campuses

Binge Drinking On College Campuses “Me and my friends were all sitting in a circle playing the drinking game power hour, but instead of drinking a beer every minute for an hour we all took a shot every five minutes. Being the sneaky guy that I am, I took a few extra shots in between. By the end of the two hours we played, I must have at least taken twenty shots. That was the most I have ever drank in one sitting,” said Hector Molina, a student at Penn State Berks. Binge drinking, defined as the consumption of five or more drinks in a row on at least one occasion, is a widespread phenomenon on most college campuses. In a survey of students at 140 colleges by researchers from the Harvard University School of Public Health, 44% reported binge drinking (five or more drinks in a row for men, four or more for women during the past two weeks). Half of all males binged, compared with 39% of females. The study classified 19% of all students as "frequent binge drinkers" who binge three or more times in two weeks (23% of men and 17% of women). At almost one-third of the colleges binge, drinking, students, alcohol, social, said, drink, college, drinkers, molina, greek, 1996, wechsler, two, problems, colleges, time, property, problem, one, next, because, vandalism, university, surveyed, student, stress, should, sex, reported, people, part, night, need, must