Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fraternities and clubs so steeped in alcohol that they have forgotten why they originally came into existence (four of five fraternity-house residents are binge drinkers...
...Parents who feel that drinking is okay as long as it's not drugs, and who provide money for purchasing alcohol...
...Colleges which put tradition above common sense. (For example, one Ivy college had a traditional "streaking" day on which alcohol helped the timid act out, until the injuries outweighed the "fun." Another Ivy had a day on which students climbed a hill to revel with their six-packs...
...effort is spent persuading the binge drinkers to give up a behavior which most of them don't view as a problem. The more a student drinks, the larger the number of drinks he or she thinks it's okay to consume. The measures the College Alcohol study uses to define binge drinking--five drinks in a row for men and four for women--are scoffed at by binge drinkers: "What's five drinks, I can drink ten and still function...
This reaction of the frequent binge drinker is shared by the International Center for Alcohol Policies, which describes itself as "supported by eleven international beverage alcohol companies." A report of this center refers to a ten-drink measure of dangerous drinking in contrast to our five-drink measure. That's one way to drastically reduce the size of the college alcohol problem: define it out of existence...