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In the News
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Frat death puts binge drinking back in limelight
Fresno Bee September 11, 2012
The number of young adults ages 18 to 24 who are hospitalized for alcohol overdoses has risen by about 25% over the last decade, even as the share of college students and Greeks who binge drink has been stable in recent years.
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Is underage drinking ever OK
CNN September 4, 2012
"If parents have a liberal idea about alcohol, kids may get the wrong message," says Dr. Vivian Faden, director of the Office of Science Policy and Communications at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism at the National Institutes of Health. "Underage drinking can lead to injuries, fatal car accidents, risky sexual behavior, and there's also potential risk to the developing brain."
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Teen brain scans may predict heavy drinking
San Diego Union-Tribune August 8, 2012
The brains of adolescents who binge drink activate differently than nondrinkers and those differences exist before the teenagers ever started drinking, UC San Diego researchers have found.
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UK, UofL team up to curb alcohol abuse
Associated Press August 7, 2012
With the fall semester starting soon, two distillers on Tuesday sweetened their contributions to Kentucky's two largest universities to try to curtail underage and binge drinking among students — all-too-common campus rituals nationwide that carry serious hangover effects.
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