Binge drinking in adolescents and college students.

9781606920374

Binge drinking in adolescents and college students.

Marczinski, Cecile A..

Nova Science Publishers

2009

210 pages

$79.00

Hardcover

HV5293

The authors (no credentials provided) present 18 chapters composing a sociological examination of binge drinking among adolescents and college students, covering factors behind its popularity, its physiological and behavioral consequences, and intervention techniques. Chapter topics include: binge drinking demographics, neurocognitive and health effects of binge drinking, animal models of adolescent and adult binge alcohol use, impaired driving and other health risk behaviors, screening and brief intervention in the emergency department, behavioral control models and alcohol, alcohol tolerance, energy drinks mixed with alcohol, adult expectancies and binge alcohol use, and prevention and intervention strategies. This volume has a coherent and informative preface and is well referenced.

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