After an unconscious female student was found in a car parked at a local grocery parking lot on Friday night, police officers and sheriff’s deputies from Kittitas County, Washington were led to an alarming scene at a rented summer house.
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College drinking has been an increasing problem over the last few years, and many public health organizations have made recommendations for steps colleges and college communities can take to help curb problematic drinking. However, a new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health shows that few colleges are actually taking those steps.
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The Youth Commission on Alcohol, a group of 16 Scottish volunteers aged between 14 and 22, has spent a year preparing its 38 recommendations for banning advertising alcohol in public. Commission members supported plans for a minimum price for alcohol but said it would not solve problem drinking. They called for more lessons in school about alcohol abuse and research into the impact of passive drinking.
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A recent study led by neuroscientist Susan Tapert of the University of California, San Diego compared the brain scans of teens who drink heavily with the scans of teens who don’t, and found damaged nerve tissue in the brains of the teens who drank. NPR’s Michelle Trudeau writes that the researchers believe this damage negatively affects attention span in boys, as well as girls’ ability to comprehend and interpret visual information.
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By LeAnne Bagnall
Binge drinking has always been associated with males, especially college students in fraternities. Despite this prevailing stereotype, studies have found that an ongoing shift in the gender scale has been moving more towards women when it comes to the overindulgence of alcohol. Is this dangerous activity now being idealized by the female population?
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Researchers found that an alcohol control program at Western Washington University that also involved the community—including police efforts—led to a decline in binge drinking by college students. The findings highlight the importance of college-community cooperation in combating problem drinking, says lead researcher Robert F. Salz, PhD, of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Berkeley, CA.
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