Happy Birthday to You: Heavy Drinking among College Students

The Drinking Report for Addiction Medicine (DRAM) provides a summary of a research that looks into how turning 21 affects risky drinking behavior among college students.

"For many people, the college years are a time of increased risk for binge drinking and other risky drinking behavior (The DRAM, Vol. 7(2); The DRAM, Vol. 5(3); The DRAM, Vol. 6(3)). Researchers have determined that some events, like holidays, can dramatically increase such risk (Addiction and the Humanities, Vol. 3(9); The DRAM, Vol. 6(2)) among college students. This week, The DRAM reviews research that examined how the event of turning 21 years old affects risky drinking behavior among college students (Neighbors et al., 2011) compared to other special events and baseline risky drinking behavior (i.e., college student drinking on a typical weekend)."

Read the full summary by visiting The Brief Addiction Science Information Source (BASIS) Website.