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But at the same time, Rosenthal says "many people see binge drinking as a rite of college. Afterwards, and many even during college, turn to healthy living."
According to Rosenthal, the quantity of alcohol matters most, whether or not a person feels the effects.
According to Clark and Rosenthal, the long-term impacts of binge drinking are primarily the continuing fallout of acute drinking-related risks. As long as people confine their binge drinking to college, the primary dangers are the result of their activity while under the influence, like unwanted and unplanned sex...
Students are more aware than ever of the potential risks associated with drinking. But it seems that at Harvard, at least, students have not changed their behavior despite being well-informed.
According to H. Westley Clark, director of the center for substance abuse treatment, a federal government program, this generation of college students is "under no greater or lesser risk" of falling prey to the risks of drinking.