Word: drinkingness
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The statewide survey of 7,500 adults found that 18 percent reported binge drinking in the past month, compared to 16 percent of people over the age of 18 nationally. Massachusetts’ rate has remained constant since 1995.
And adults surveyed who had not graduated from high school were less likely to report heavy drinking, or consumption of more than 60 drinks in a month for men and more than 30 for women, than those with higher levels of education.
“I don’t think [a high rate of binge-drinking] is a Massachusetts-specific phenomenon,” said Michael Botticelli, the assistant commissioner for substance abuse services in the DPH. “We see it in the Northeast and in certain geographic parts...
“Demographic differences may account at least in part for this difference—more college students living in Massachusetts, fewer members of fundamentalist religions that ban alcohol,” wrote Henry Wechsler, director of the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Studies Program, in an...
Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 appointed a committee in the fall of 2003 to cut back on alcohol abuse on campus. In a report this fall, the committee recommended the creation of a post to oversee alcohol-related issues at the College and to...