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Monday, July 14, 2003So far, the Kent State group's findings -- based on the 2002 research -- goes against conventional wisdom that drunkenness is a fairly regular state of being for many college students. Graduate students working with Thombs gave breath tests to students on Wednesday though Saturday nights over 15 weeks. For Thursday through Saturday nights, students had an average blood-alcohol level in the moderate range -- from 0.048 to 0.051 percent. To be considered legally drunk in Ohio, the blood alcohol level must be 0.08 percent or above. Yet under the definitions used in other studies, many of these students would be classified as ``binge drinkers,'' Thombs said. That's because many male students reported drinking five or more drinks and many female students reported drinking four or more. The so-called binge-drinking measure does not show if the alcohol was consumed over a number of hours, Thombs said. Never trust a survey. posted by Sydney on 7/14/2003 06:25:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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