According to a 1999 Harvard University School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, of the 44 percent of U.S. college students who admitted to binge drinking during the two weeks before the survey, the majority were white, age 23 or younger, residents of a fraternity or sorority (Fact pp). More than 70,000 college students are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape, while two-thirds report reckless behavior such as unprotected sex, unplanned sex, or driving while drunk (Binge pp). Alcohol poisoning is a severe and potentially fatal physical reaction to an alcohol overdose, and is the most serious consequence of binge drinking (Binge1 pp).

The Harvard study also revealed that frequent binge drinkers consume some two-thirds of all the alcohol college students drink, and account for three-fifths of the most serious alcohol related problems on campuses, such as vandalism, becoming injure

The consequences of binge drinking by college students is not limited to the drinkers themselves, for according to students who attended schools with high rates of heavy drinking experienced a greater number of secondhand effects, such as disruption of sleep or studies, property damage, and verbal, physical, or sexual violence, and moreover, residents of neighborhoods near colleges report higher rates of noise disruptions, property damage, and police visits than neighborhood surrounding schools with lower drinking rates and people who did not live near a college (Lee pp). Other consequences of binge drinking include live and neurological problems, alcohol related suicides, the risk of sexually transmitted disease, crimes of violence, antisocial behavior, low academic performance , and related social dysfunctions (Dietrich pp). According to a recent study by the Core Institute, students who engage in binge drinking were over 3 times more likely to be victims of physical violence than were non binge drinkers, and binge drinkers were more than twice as likely to have experienced forced sexual touching than non-binge drinkers and nearly 3 times more likely to have experienced unwanted sexual intercourse (Hensley pp). A 1996 survey showed that 20 percent of Americans aged 18-30 reported binge drinking, and according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, more than 2,000 youth died in alcohol related car accidents in 1996 (AMA pp)

Efforts to prevent binge drinking in colleges are advanced through a variety of programs that range from unique single-school projects to cross-college initiatives and some surveys of programming (Seibring pp). For example, at Northern Arizona, freshmen are shown a series of vignettes that address, among other issues, college drinking, and at Washington State University, a six week series of lectures for freshman are aimed not at telling students not to drink, but warning them of state laws and the consequences o

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