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Originally posted by russotto
As for "alcohol abuse" on college campuses: One big thing is they define all underaged drinking as "alcohol abuse". Move the drinking age from 18 to 21, and you create a whole lot of "alcohol abuse" -- which is good for some people, because it gives the authorities something to justify their budget over.
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Well, that may be an official definition somewhere, but that wasn't how I'm using it. I don't consider an 18 yo having a couple beers "alcohol abuse". When you're talking about five or six drinks at a sitting, more than once a week, on a regular basis, well, in my book that's a problem. I've worked or done graduate study on enough campuses to be convinced that the "problem" is a) a lot worse than when I was in college 15 years ago and b) is not simply an anecdotal effort to justify increased budgets for certain departments.