Binge drinking and casual sex on spring break

HIV-risk behaviours of American spring break vacationers: a case of situational disinhibition?

Young adults are at high risk for acquiring STDs/HIV due primarily to multiple sex partners, unprotected sex, and substance use combined with sexual activity. Contranormative settings--such as the annual spring break vacation--provide ideal conditions for the potentially lethal interaction between alcohol, drugs, and sexual risk-taking. As a steadily growing form of youth travel and characteriz...

Comment on “binge drinking and alcohol prices”

To the editors of health economics review: There is ample evidence on the effects of prices and taxes on heavy drinking, including binge drinking [1]. Experiments on “Happy Hour” discounts in barroom settings have shown that when the price of alcohol decreases, consumption increases, and vice versa [2, 3]. A well-cited meta-analysis of 112 studies (Wagenaar et al., [4]) identified ten studies o...

Smoking, Binge Drinking and the

On Iowa Student Experiences : Binge Drinking

High-risk alcohol consumption by college students is a matter of increasing concern in postsecondary education in the United States. Consequences of excessive and underage drinking, including alcoholrelated deaths, injuries, and assaults; unsafe and/or unwanted sex; property damage and vandalism; drunk driving; arrests and other interactions with police; health problems; and academic problems, ...

Fraternity membership and binge drinking.

This paper examines the relationship that social fraternity and sorority membership has with binge drinking incidence and frequency among 18-24 year old full-time 4-year college students who participated in the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey. To net out unobserved heterogeneity, several measures of situational and total alcohol use are entered into the regressions as explanat...