Binge Drinking

Following are links to websites with information on binge drinking

Alcohol Concern
Binge Drinking: Factsheet
A description of binge drinking that considers associated heath and social effects and examines what can be done to combat binge drinking.

Alcohol Policies Project
Factsheet: Binge Drinking on College Campuses

Australian Drug Foundation (ADF)
Factsheet: The Facts About Binge Drinking - For Young People

British Home Office
Drunk and disorderly - a qualitative study of binge drinking among 18- to 24-year-olds
This report presents the findings from a qualitative study exploring the social context of binge drinking among young adults aged from 18 to 24 years. The study examines young people’s experiences of crime, disorder and risk-taking in the night-time economy, and explores ways in which drinking patterns, attitudes to drinking alcohol and the effects of binge drinking were related to these experiences. The research provides an evidence base for the development of policies to reduce alcohol-related crime, disorder and violence, and public drunkenness. February 2003 (pdf file)

Harpers: The Wine and Spirit Weekly
Alcohol Strategy: Beating the Binge Culture
An article on the potential health problems caused by binge drinking. (April 2004)

Institute of Alcohol Studies
Binge Drinking: Factsheet
Factsheet about the nature, prevalence and causes of binge drinking. (pdf file)
Binge Drinking: Factsheet
Factsheet about the medical and social consequences of binge drinking. (pdf file)
Occasional paper - Crime and Disorder, Binge Drinking and the Licensing Act 2003
This paper provides a critique of the assumptions underlying the Licensing Act 2003 and the allegedly beneficial effects of the Act in regard to reducing the problems of binge drinking. (pdf file)

New Zealand Drug Foundation
Ads blamed for binge drinking. 2002

Journal of Adolescent Health
Taking Up Binge Drinking in College - The Influences of Person, Social Group, and Environment
An article about binge drinking that is based on student responses taken from the Harvard School of Public Health, College Alcohol Study. The article indicates that the reduction of alcohol and substance use amongst college students can be achieved by limiting access/availability, controlling prices and increasing the number of substance free environments and associations. 2003 (pdf file)