Is it just as bad here in Canada ?
Young adults drink themselves to death
July 9th, 2008
Experts urge moderation is key when it comes to consuming alcohol
By AMY FORLITI
The Associated Press
An analysis of U.S. federal records found that 157 college-age people, 18 to 23, drank themselves to death from 1999 through 2005, the most recent year for which figures are available. The number of alcohol-poisoning deaths per year rose from 18 in 1999 to 35 in 2005.
Over the seven-year span, 83 of the college-age victims were under the drinking age of 21.
"There have always been problems with young people and alcohol, but it just seems like they are a little more intense now than they used to be," said Connie Gores, vice president for student life at Winona State. "The goal of a lot of them is just to get smashed."
A separate analysis of hundreds of news articles about alcohol-poisoning deaths in the past decade found that victims drank themselves well past the point of oblivion -- with an average blood-alcohol level of 0.40 percent, or five times the legal limit for driving. In nearly every case, friends knew the victim was drunk and put him or her to bed to "sleep it off."
The federal data showed deaths spiking on weekends -- when young people are more likely to go out with the goal of getting drunk -- and in December, when college students wrap up finals. Most of the dead were young men.
One practice -- drinking 21 shots on a 21st birthday -- has proven especially lethal. Of the college-age deaths that made news, 11 people, including eight college students, died while celebrating their 21st birthdays.
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