Female college students are beginning to binge drink as often as their male colleagues and in some cases are drinking equal measures of alcohol, a health study has warned.
Third-level students in University College Cork (UCC) were asked about their consumption of alcohol and drugs, and the effects of these on their social and academic lives.
Researchers have called for a drinks and a drugs advisory group to be set up in every college on the back of the findings.
A "concerning trend" was emerging where female students appeared to be binge drinking at least as often as their male colleagues, a significant rise on previous findings.
Binge drinking is defined as having at least four pints of beer/cider or a bottle of wine or its equivalent in spirits on a single drinking occasion.
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Source: Juno McEnroe, The Irish Examiner, 28/09/2010
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