Not All University Students Will 'Mature Out' Of Heavy Drinking Habits
Sunday, June 1, 2008 - 09:28
in Psychology & Sociology
Not all university students will "mature out" of their heavy-drinking habits. A new study examines the density of college students' family history of alcoholism. This type of measure -- looking at first-, second- and third-degree relatives -- identified a significant number of at-risk individuals who would have been missed using regular family-history measures.
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