Party Schools Like to Party
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 15:42
in Health & Medicine
A team from the Harvard School of Public Health has deduced what an annual Playboy survey has been telling us for years: Partying is more common at party schools. In a review of the 14-year-long College Alcohol Study, Director Henry Wechsler and Assistant Director Toben Nelson conclude that heavy drinking among students was more common at schools with an established drinking culture, lots of liquor stores, and awesome drink specials, a condition the researchers call a “wet environment” (which, I’m assuming, may also lead to a higher prevalence of wet t-shirt contests). read more
Read the whole article on PopSci
More from PopSci
Related
- Binge drinking tied to conditions in the college environmentFri, 11 Jul 2008, 15:21:38 EDT
- Middle schoolers and alcohol: Tips for parents from AAASThu, 4 Sep 2008, 15:23:34 EDT
- As college drinking problems rise, new studies identify effective prevention strategiesMon, 15 Jun 2009, 12:36:26 EDT
- Higher drinking age linked to less binge drinking... except in college studentsMon, 22 Jun 2009, 15:56:20 EDT
- Use science to convince teens a sober prom is better, AAAS saysWed, 20 May 2009, 13:38:02 EDT