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SAMHSA Radio News Line

College Life Can Provide a Dangerous Outlet for Incoming Students with Alcohol Disorders

Posted: June 18th, 2006, 5:00pm PDT

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(BEARD OPEN): According to data from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration--SAMHSA--full-time college students age 18 to 22 were more likely than their peers who are not enrolled full-time to use alcohol, binge drink, and drink heavily. Doctor Robert Deloian ["de-loin"]--former international president of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity--says nearly half of these students got their drinking habit before they went to college--and the college life provides them a dangerous outlet to continue that habit...

(DELOIAN): "The fraternities and sororities--as well as just college life, in general--provide an outlet for those who have already got their habit. We normally see about half of the binge-drinking students that are in college got their habit either in high school or earlier; so now, they're going where they can continue their habit. And, what occurs is that it just continues to snowball--and those numbers of students increase."

(BEARD CLOSE): Experts say most students don't consider addiction to alcohol--or the possible consequences--before they binge drink. One university in Virginia, for example, has a tradition where seniors drink a fifth of hard liquor at the final game of the football season--the so-called "fourth-year fifth"; that tradition, alone, has killed 18 students, since 19-90. For more information about underage alcohol use--and what's being done to prevent it--visit www.stopalcoholabuse.gov. For the "SAMHSA Newsline", I'm Bill Beard.

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