Binge drinking, pill abuse intensifies at schools and colleges

[mzkhadir]

MSNBC

 

[Brainonska511]

I'm shocked that they need a study to tell people this.

 

[Whisper]

I definitely see it around campus, although I will say that the definitions of "binge drinking" have always been a bit off as far as I'm concerned.

 

[bignateyk]

Another worthless study...

Anyone with half a brain could have come to that conclusion.

 

[AreaCode707]

?Things do work, it?s just having the will and time and money to implement them,? said Roger Vaughan, a Columbia biostatistician involved in the report. ?People need to step up and realize this is not a rite of passage, this is not something we should tolerate. If it keeps going, we?re going to destroy our best and brightest.?

Actually, I think it's more of a Darwinian thing.

 

[ggnl]

EVERYBODY PANIC!!!

 

[ScottyB]

The sky is falling!!! The sky is falling!!! Why can't people be drug free like during the 60s and 70s?

 

[daniel3168]

nothing new its always been like that that old news some ones child probably got caught and they told the media to investigate and what do you know you got a story to fill up 2:00 to 5:00 gap in the news program. there is always a story out with the same subject every year if people would educate there kids at a young age and not be afraid to give them a good whopping when they get out of line it might not be so bad

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: ScottyB
The sky is falling!!! The sky is falling!!! Why can't people be drug free like during the 60s and 70s?

Haha I love the irony.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

so whats your point?

 

[AMDZen]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
so whats your point?

Precisely what i was thinking.

 

[clamum]

How else are you supposed to have fun in college?

 

[ThePresence]

This has been going on since the '60s. And it was probably a lot worse then.

 

[meltdown75]

turn on, tune in, drop out

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: clamum
How else are you supposed to have fun in college?

Are you serious?

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo

Originally posted by: clamum
How else are you supposed to have fun in college?

Are you serious?

Hahaha... no, I'm not. But it is pretty fun.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
I'm shocked that they need a study to tell people this.

I don't know about you but I wasn't in college in 1993, so how in the hell would I know that binge drinking and drug abuse has increased since then?

Substance abuse on college campuses is nothing new, but it is taking a more extreme and dangerous form, with higher rates of frequent binge drinking and prescription drug abuse, and more negative consequences for students such as arrests and risky sexual behavior.

 

[George P Burdell]

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[SociallyChallenged]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell
Sig

Lmao, never heard it put that way before

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: HotChic

?Things do work, it?s just having the will and time and money to implement them,? said Roger Vaughan, a Columbia biostatistician involved in the report. ?People need to step up and realize this is not a rite of passage, this is not something we should tolerate. If it keeps going, we?re going to destroy our best and brightest.?

Actually, I think it's more of a Darwinian thing.

Agreed. I wasn't aware that our best and bright were for some reason uncontrolably drawn to drug and alcohol abuse. I thought that was the idiots.

PS: I'm getting tore up to celebrate my raise right now. Responsibly tore up.

 

[TallBill]

I think that people of all ages have been abusing alcohol and drugs since people have existed.