College Student's Murder Trial Reveals Dangers Of Binge Drinking

There's little question that George Huguely V, the former University of Virginia student on trial for murder, had a problem with alcohol. He had been arrested twice for drinking-related infractions, one of them violent, in his early 20s. But trial testimony over the past two weeks from witnesses, most of them former U.Va. students, has repeatedly shown that Huguely, now 24, was part of a college culture where some young people drink before working on papers, "pregame" before going to bars and drink to get drunk almost every time. Roughly 80 percent of college students drink, and half of them "engage in heavy episodic consumption," also known as binge drinking. Read more at:
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