Friday, May 25, 2007

Heavy-drinking college kids make worse decisions

Heavy-drinking college kids make worse decisions (Reuters)

A college girl drinks beer through a funnel and pipe as thousands of college-age students gather on the infield in a traditional display of drunken fun on the day of the Preakness Stakes horse race at the Pimlico track in Baltimore, Maryland, May 15, 2004. The earlier a person begins to binge drink, the stronger the tie to poor decision-making skills, Dr. Anna E. Goudriaan and colleagues from the University of Missouri-Columbia say in a report. (Jason Reed/Reuters)Reuters - Young adults who binge drink frequently are more likely to show disadvantageous decision-making patterns than their peers who don't drink as heavily, a new study shows.


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