Early Friday Classes Could Cut College Drinking

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"Drinking by 18- to 24-year-olds (leads to more than) 1,800 deaths annually, nearly 700,000 assaults annually by drinking college students, nearly 100,000 date rapes perpetrated by drinking college students, (and) half of those who die in crashes involving drinking drivers 18 to 24 are people other than the drinking driver," Ralph Hingson, director of the division of epidemiology and prevention research at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, said in a prepared statement.

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The U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has more about college drinking.