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Ryan Travia, director of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services for the College, said he doubted the study would change students’ drinking habits.
“I haven’t encountered too many students who cite the medical benefits of drinking,” he said.
But, Mukamal warns, the study shouldn’t be used as an excuse for heavy drinking.
“The bulk of alcohol consumption in college occurs in binge drinking,” Mukamal said in a phone interview.
The study, carried out by Harvard affiliates at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard School of Public Health, was published on Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine. It found that healthy men who consumed an average of one-half to two drinks per day were 40 to...