If you live in a coed college dormitory or apartment, you may have noticed a lot of partying going on around you. Students who live in coed housing are much more likely to binge drink regularly, but not as much as students living in fraternity or sorority houses.

These were the findings of a new nationwide study of 500 students on five different college campuses. Read more...

If you drink heavily at times during your pregnancy your child will run the risk of developing a variety of behavioral problems, according to a study of 2,000 mothers and their children. The types of problems differ depending on whether the drinking occurred in early or late pregnancy, the researchers found.

The researchers concluded that the timing and the intensity of the mother's drinking during pregnancy affects the type of behavior problems their children developed. Read more...

For years teens were getting the message about the dangers of abusing drugs and teen surveys showed a long gradual decline in drug use. But as the first decade of the 21st Century came to a close, that decline appeared to be coming to an end.

The latest findings from the annual Monitoring the Future study indicated that teen marijuana use has been increasing over the past two years - three years for 12th graders, following years of declining use. Read more...

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