Binge Drinking Down Among College Students, Study Finds

CBS Local — The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) was concerned with the rate of drinking among college students, so it started an ongoing study into drinking in 1999. That study has provided an unexpected update in July’s issue of Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs: binge drinking in college students is actually on the decline.
The study found that the number of college students between 18 and 24 years old who binge drink is down from 45 perce