Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maura Valle, a health educator with University Health Services (UHS), and other prominent health researchers agree on two things. One, that a college atmosphere is conducive to heavy drinking and two, that excessive drinking in college can lead to more serious alcohol-related problems in the future...
High school drinking, in addition to the independence that many freshpeople experience for the first time, helps to foster experimentation and habitforming use of alcohol...
...undergraduate in the mid-70s, and drugs were a big problem," Mackay-Smith says. "This year the drugs of choice are vodka and beer. I think that students now are misusing alcohol in the same way that students in the 70s were misusing drugs...
Wechsler co-wrote a 1981 study surveying 7083 New England college students about their drinking habits. The study showed that a high percentage of college students who drink excessively have suffered some of the consequences of alcohol abuse. The study shows that the 242 college males who were classified as "frequent-heavy drinkers" reported, on the whole, drinking more than four drinks or five cans of beer in one sitting...
...these heavy drinkers had been in trouble with authorities, and 53 percent had gotten into physical fights after drinking. About 29 percent said drinking had caused them to have an automobile accident and another 27 percent said they had been involved in other accidents as a result of alcohol...