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...According to a study published Tuesday by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA), underage drinkers account for 25 percent of all alcohol consumed...
...time ever, those numbers are equal for boys and girls. (Bingeing is defined as getting drunk repeatedly over the course of one or two days). Forty percent of ninth graders (male and female) admit to drinking at least occasionally, and 81 percent of all high school students have consumed alcohol at some point...
...risky) behaviors, including unprotected sex, drunk driving, drug abuse and even suicide. Hardly surprising, then, that grown-ups are alarmed. Of the 900 adults interviewed for the study, 76 percent believe parents should be held legally responsible for teen drinking; 86 percent call for restrictions on home delivery of alcohol; 74 percent support restrictions on alcohol advertising and 54 percent support increasing taxes on alcohol...
...thing, the College’s rules regarding alcohol are now stricter—proctors manned the kegs when she was a first-year, she remembers...
DANGEROUS LIAISONS Candy is dandy, but--alas--liquor is still quicker. More than a third of sexually active teens and young adults in a new survey admit that alcohol and drugs have influenced their decisions about sex. Nearly a quarter say they have had unprotected sex while under the influence. The lesson for young people, says Joseph Califano, head of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, is that "drinking and sex is as dangerous as drinking and driving...