From National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)…
Too often today’s headlines bring news of yet another alcohol-related tragedy involving a young person—a case of fatal alcohol poisoning on a college campus or a late-night drinking–driving crash. People ages 18 to 25 often are in the news, but are they really at higher risk than [...]

From the New York Times…
MANOREXIA. Orthorexia. Diabulimia. Binge Eating Disorder.
All are dangerous variations on the eating disorders anorexia and bulimia, and have become buzzwords that are popping up on Web sites and blogs, on television and in newspaper articles. As celebrity magazines chronicle the glamorous and the suffering, therapists and a growing number of researchers [...]

From the National Geographic special “Inside the Living Body”…

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From the Mayo Clinic… 
Coffee’s about as helpful as a cold shower or a brisk walk in sobering you up. That is, it’s not helpful at all! Your blood alcohol level starts to rise with just one alcoholic drink. The only way to lower your blood alcohol level is to stop drinking and wait. It’ll simply take [...]

From the Hartford Courant…
Colleges across Connecticut have taken a number of steps to cast off the drinking culture that infuses so much of campus life.  The tactics they’ve employed include strictly enforcing existing rules, aggressively screening students for signs of risky behavior, establishing peer support programs and enlisting the help of local police, bar owners [...]

Go Ask Alice!, Columbia University’s Health Q & A Internet Service, offers the following advice in response to the question “Have any tips for hangovers?”:
Most people who consume too much alcohol in a given drinking occasion will experience a hangover at some point. Hangovers are a set of symptoms that are thought to be brought on [...]

This mini-documentary called “Drinking in College” was made by college students Chris Grady, Zack Brackman and Brian Robinson for a class at an unnamed campus. Only men were interviewed, providing an interesting look into men’s experience with alcohol and masculinity.

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What are your thoughts?  How does this compare to drinking culture at Wesleyan?

A recent article in the New York Times shared new research on references to alcohol, tobacco and other drugs (ATOD) in music. It stated that:
One in three popular songs contains explicit references to drug or alcohol use, according to a new report in The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. That means kids are receiving about [...]

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From the New York Times…
The urge to binge mindlessly, though it can strike at any time, seems to stir in the collective unconscious during the last weeks of winter. Maybe it’s the television images from places like Fort Lauderdale and Cabo San Lucas, of communications majors’ face planting outside bars or on beaches.
Or perhaps it’s [...]