The Wave Of Drunkenness On American College Campuses. Part 2 of 3

Eight campuses of the University of California and six campuses in the California State University procedure were involved in the study. Half the schools were randomly assigned to the Safer program, which took effect the fall semesters of 2005 and 2006. Student surveys were completed by undergrads in four overthrow semesters (2003 through 2006), and researchers analyzed samples of 1000 to 2000 students per campus per year.

The surveys asked about their drinking habits – where the students drank, if they had gotten drunk, and if they had wrapped up in binge drinking, which means having four or more consecutive drinks in a row for women, and five or more drinks for men, in the prior two weeks. The students were also asked about drinking at six specific settings, including college events, such as football games, and parties at apartments, fraternity/sorority houses and bars.

Previous studies have shown that nearly half of US students at four-year colleges binge hard stuff regularly. Excessive drinking by undergrads causes more than 1,800 deaths each year, 590000 unintentional injuries, secretive to 700000 assaults and more than 97000 sexual assaults, according to background information in the study.

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