With the coming education bubble burst I say stock up now cause your gonna need it university of phoenix grads

So 5592 students are getting public-money treatment for alcohol substance abuse nationwide? That is such a tiny number compared to the overall size of the entire student body of every single college in the USA (and the combined number of students as well), and my question is, who cares?

and it may lead to this (nsfw)

Make alcohol illegal again!

New study finds college binge drinking to be a blast (new window)

My college drank more than your college.. meh...

Mr. Parker: Make alcohol illegal again!

clearly this is the only answer because there's no way that the cultural in the US that feels the need to protect the "children" from anything "bad" is in no way responsible for this.

Bout time I come and brag about being an Ohio University Bobcat. Then, I remember.... I'm an Ohio University Bobcat.

/Beggin for an at large bid to the dance

I just saw a bar advertisement for free cover and penny beers at a college bar.

/UCF
//lots of drinking
///lots of hot girls

Prohibition works so well with marijuanna lets try it with alcohol.

That article refutes its own headline. Talk about twisting the stats.

In several other categories, college students had lower rates of admission to substance abuse programs than non-students. For heroin use, the rate was 7.2 percent for college students and 16.1 percent for non-students. For other opiates, the rate was 8.3 percent for college students and 10.5 percent for non-students.

More college kids are in substance-abuse programs for alcohol because they don't do as many hard drugs. End of story.

blatz514: To all the underage, dorm dwellers reading this...a case of beer fits nicely into a DVD player box. I bought a shiat load of DVD players my freshman and sophomore year.

Modern DVD players aren't quite so big. Unless you're taking all the cans out and stacking them in the box. Personally I suggest hard liquor. More bang for your buck and easier to pack into something.

College drinking story time?

I went to college in Hays, KS my first two years, 1991-93. To say that Hays had a somewhat lax view on the dangers of underage drinking is underselling it just a bit.

My first night there I'm sitting in some guys dorm room on my floor just shooting the shiat, drinking a couple beers he had. Around comes this guy asking if anyone wants to hit the bars, he's buying the first round. No one is taking him up on the offer, which should have been a warning sigh, but I'm young and stupid so I say yes and off we go.

Turns out he's a frat guy looking to pick up some pledges or something, a role that I was never going to fit into. He manages to pick up like 4 or 5 other guys, finds the one that I guess he thought might look good in a toga or something, takes him over to "meet the fellas" and basically ditches the rest of us. So there I am sitting at the bar thinking I now have nothing to do and no way to drink, since I'm still 18. Bartender asks me what i want.

I show him the stamp on my hand and tell him "I'm only 18".

"Put that hand under the bar."

I do what he says.

"Now, what will you have to drink?"

Nine or ten Singapore Slings later (don't ask me how I even knew that drink existed, let alone why I thought I should be drinking them on my first night out in college) a giant police siren in the corner of the bar goes off, complete with the flashing red light. The DJ gets on the mic to tell everyone "You know what that means, Hays' Finest in the house, lose those drinks if you're under 21". I look and sure enough two cops are already in the place talking to the bouncer. I push my drink down the bar a bit and just kind of try not to look drunk as they walk by. Eventually they leave and like 50 kids are all ordering another drink at the bar at the same time.

I drank for another couple hours, and eventually I vaguely recognize someone from my dorm floor I met earlier. I must have looked like I was about ready to slip into a coma, because he tells me that it's time to go and basically drags me out. Walking a mile and a half back to the dorm, as well as the 6 flights of stairs up to my floor (gotta turn off the elevators at 11:00 for some reason) does a pretty decent job of sobering me up some, enough that I can at least manage to get face down into bed.

"The big thing sticking out is ... of those 12,000 kids [in substance abuse treatment programs] who are in college, almost half -- 46.6 percent -- are going into treatment because of alcohol," says Dr. Peter Delany.

So, Doctor Delany, you'd rather there were a higher percentage using drugs rather than drinking?

According to previous trends, the entire caloric intake of the average college student should now be nothing but ethanol.

/yeah vodak!

People drink in college?!? Won't someone please think of the adults?

Mugato: If you're a college kid, you're not even old enough to have a substance abuse problem yet. You can maintain for a good 10 years before the liver and brain start to go.

Bullshiat. I used to volunteer at a place that offered drug and alcohol counseling, and you can become addicted to things like heroin and Valium in as little as 2 weeks. And I don't mean drug abuse, I mean full-blown addiction.

Whatever, the College game will never catch up to the Pros here at Fark.

Isn't drinking allegedly on the rise overall in America?

It's fine, we aren't even close to being the world's #1 drinkers. Keep up the good work everyone.

/Still a little drunk from last night
//Still made it into the office on time
///High functioning alcoholics unite

So let me get this straight: if you have "no tolerance" rules in place and do everything you can to repress kids from drinking, they tend to overindulge once the yoke is off and they finally have access to booze?

Shocking.

I personally love hanging around the campus areas main st or the one that has all the bars in September.
Watching what happens to guys who are away from their families for the first time and under peer pressure is amazing.

I would have popcorn with me if it wasn't for all the vomit.

/insert jokerpopcorn.gif

Serious question, Should I be concerned with my drinking pattern?

over the last six months I've been drinking more due to various reasons. Ocasionally now, I get this feeling of "I'd like a drink right now." It'll go away, and it's not overcoming. However, when I do get a drink after that feeling will feel really good. In terms of the urge, I'd say it is less then when I get an urge for sugar.

When I do go drink it is usually 2-3 beers. I'd say I drink about 7-9 beers a week spread over 3 encounters.