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College binge drinking is more of an issue than ever ... At least two out of every five U.S. college students regularly binge drink, resulting each year in approximately fourteen hundred student deaths, a distressing number of assaults and rapes, a shameful amount of vandalism, and countless cases of academic suicide. In [this book, the authors] take stock of the problem. [The author] warns that drinking on campus is taking a bigger toll than most of us realize. And it's not just the students themselves who pay: One estimate puts the cost of underage drinking at around $53 billion a year, including $18 billion associated with traffic crashes that threaten the general public--about 57 percent of frequent binge drinkers and 40 percent of occasional binge drinkers admit getting behind the wheel after drinking. Is this a price we're willing to pay for a teenager's drunken "fun"? Perhaps more chilling even than the cold facts and figures are the personal confessions gathered [by the authors]. A frat brother who regularly drinks until he blacks out recounts how, if not why, he does it; a non-binge drinker tells about the secondhand effects of alcohol that he's suffered at the hands of in

Author

Wechsler, Henry, 1932-; Wuethrich, Bernice

Publisher

Rodale Customer Service, 33 East Minor Street, Emmaus, PA 18098 ($24.95). Tel: 800-848-4735 (Toll Free); Web site: http://www.rodalestore.com

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781579547776

Subjects

Social Science, Science, Education