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...college drinking has to be placed in the total societal perspective, Wechsler says. "You have to look at what college students are bringing to college with them and what kind of society the college...
...Wechsler says that 90 percent of American college students drink, but adds that that figure should not be surprising. Drinking increases as students approach their 20s, but decreases later, he says, making people between the ages of 18 and 24 the heaviest drinkers in the general population...
...Wechsler says that in a study of high school drinking, 40 percent of high school males reported having had at least a six-pack of beer in the last two weeks...
...College drinking is a national follow-up of high school drinking," Wechsler says. "We shouldn't be surprised that there's a lot of college drinking, especially with men, because of high school drinking...
What is surprising, Wechsler says, is the number of heavy drinkers in college. "They drink it all at once and become intoxicated and are prone to get into the trouble intoxicated people get into," he says...