The logic of a cool, progressive, chardonnay-enthused parent goes something like this: I do not want my young Mordecai/Susie to turn seventeen and throw an illicit keg party in my home when I attend a week-long wine-tasting tour in Napa. So, I will let Mordecai/Susie have a few sips of wine at dinner while he/she is…
It only took the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association to figure out the key to binge drinking on college campuses — students who do it are having an awesome time. According to a survey of about 1,600 undergraduate students attending and revelling at "a selective Northeastern residential…
The hazing horror story is fast becoming its very own genre of longform journalism, and like any genre, certain expectations need to be met. These chronicles feature insulated, secretive communities (you might even say cults) of young adults seeking some form of social validation and quite willing to subject either…
Who doesn't love a new study about drinking? You can feel superior to all those other sloppy drunks, until you read the fine print and realize that what you think of as a normal glass of wine actually counts as five drinks or whatever. Here to make you feel briefly good about yourself and then bad again are five fun…
A new study shows, perhaps unsurprisingly, that people are more likely to drink to excess during recessions. And the most educated, richest people are most likely to overindulge.
New research shows that women born after World War II are more likely to binge-drink than those born in previous decades. Why are ladies getting drunker than they used to?
A new study shows that parents divorce may increase children's risk of binge drinking. But parenting styles may matter even more.
WARNING: Experts fear that binge drinking will turn your teenage daughter into a "violent and promiscuous" monster.
According to a study published in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, binge drinking is more likely to affect teen girls than teen boys — due in part to the fact that the brains of young women develop before those of their male counterparts.
On last night's episode of Jersey Shore, we watched Snooki's binge drinking devolve to the point in which a young person's dedication to a "good time" crosses into bad-time territory.
Researchers have linked the rise in binge-drinking among teenage girls in the U.K. to an increase in their physical agression. Rather than addressing why young women are lashing out, experts say they just need to control themselves.
Last night on Intervention, the show's subject, a college student named Jennifer, explained that college kids who get wasted aren't necessarily alcoholics. The 22-year-old then went on to reveal that she drinks her own vomit if there's booze in it.
Maybe it wasn't until we read this headline that we really appreciated the scope of the British teen binge-drinking problem: "Wine-tasting club is the toast of top independent girls' school." Oh, and heard that the "critical thinking" teacher started it.
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New research shows that alcohol makes drinkers' minds wander, and, because they're drunk, they're not aware of it. Undeterred by this shocking discovery, Brits are boozing more than ever.
Women! We loooove talking about our feelings when we're sad, according to a new study out of the Yale School of Medicine. But men, on the other hand, are more likely to avoid expressing their anxiety and instead just bury it with beer. Yale researchers exposed 54 "social drinkers" (27 men, 27 women) to three fake…
It's been three years since alcohol licensing was relaxed in Britain, booze can be sold now at any time of day. A report was just released assessing the effects of this law, and while overall crime has gone down in England, alcohol-related crime in city centers has gone up, says Zoe Williams of the Guardian.…
There are always studies that suggest that girls need to be sheltered and protected from everything, including themselves, because of risky behavior like alcohol abuse, which apparently kids have been picking up as early as age 10. One article published in London's Daily Mail quotes research that found that women who…
CNN ruddy-cheeked-blusterer in chief Lou Dobbs has found a new victim of the War on the Middle Class being waged by Indian call center employees, H1-B engineers and Bill Gates.....
