Drinking alcohol can be a part of social life for many college students, but it’s important to do so responsibly. Understanding your limits, looking out for friends and being aware of potential risks ...

Spring break is a wild time for some college students nationwide. It can also be an extremely dangerous time, because some students engage in reckless behavior, taking drinks from strangers they just ...

Proposed changes to the psychiatric profession’s diagnostic manual, the DSM-5, have caused a recent uproar, with critics worried that the new label of “alcohol abuse disorder” will overdiagnose young ...

Heavy drinking and partying has been a part of college culture for almost as long as the institutions have existed. In recent years, exposure of widespread problems associated with college-age ...

Young adults who engage in high-intensity drinking or drink to the point of blacking out tend to experience significant ...

College students who binge drink may be acting on influences they brought from home, a new Washington State University-led study suggests. A recent survey shows that students who binge drink more than ...

Peter Hendricks, Ph.D., professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, and Kevin Madden, doctoral candidate in the UAB Medical/Clinical ...

When I attended my freshman orientation at Dartmouth in 2007, I met Keggy for the first time. Portly, gregarious, and prone to spontaneous dancing, he was both an outsize presence and a perfect ...

Heavy drinking can make it tough for college students to learn or function the next day College students were more likely to have memory or cognition lapses the day after drinking Every additional ...