Extensive users of alcohol among college students.

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Students (224 men and 68 women) who were identified in a previous mail questionnaire survey of 7083 New England [USA] college students as frequent-heavy drinkers (4 or more drinks of distilled spirits, 4 or more glasses of wine or 5 or more cans of beer at 1 sitting at least once a week) and who also reported becoming intoxicated at least once a week were compared with all other drinkers surveyed in terms of drinking patterns, reasons for and consequences of drinking, use of other drugs and demographic characteristics. In addition to differences in the amounts consumed, more of the frequent-heavy-intoxicated (FHI) drinkers than of the other drinkers reported beer as their beverage of choice, had experienced adverse consequences of drinking, currently used other drugs, had been frequent drinkers in high school and drank in a variety of locations and social contexts. The major factor differentiating FHI from other drinkers was their motivation for drinking, drinking to get drunk accounting for the greatest proportion of variance between FHI and other drinkers. Drinking behavior was not related to measures of psychological stress or to demographic characteristics, except for sex; 78% of the FHI drinkers were men. Few FHI drinkers reported being worried about their drinking, though many reported drinking behaviors considered indicative of problem drinking.

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