Binge Drinking Is It Worth Risking Your Life? What You Should Know About Alcohol Poisoning
By United Behavioral Health. © 2002. All rights reserved. Last reviewed: December 2004.
The prevalence of binge drinking among college students has remained the same between 1994-2002 (44%).
Each year 1400 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die from alcohol-related unintentional injuries.
2.6 million young people do not know that a person can die from an overdose of alcohol.
Each year approximately 50 college students across the United States die from alcohol poisoning about one person per weekend.
What is Binge Drinking?
The accepted definition of binge drinking (by the U.S. Surgeon General, The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse) is five or more drinks in a row for men, and four or more in a row for women. Drinking levels this high significantly increase the problems the drinkers and......
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