Binge drinking in adolescents and college students /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Marczinski, Cecile A.
Other Authors:	Grant, Estee C., Grant, Vincent J.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Hauppauge, NY : Nova Science, ©2009.
Subjects:	Binge drinking > United States. Teenagers > Alcohol use > United States. College students > Alcohol use > United States. Universities and colleges. Young adults. Alcohol-Related Disorders Adolescent Students Universities Young Adult students. United States
Online Access:	Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Differentiating binge drinking from social drinking and chronic drinking/alcoholism
Binge drinking demographics
Definition of a binge
Social and environmental factors and binge drinking
Neurocognitive and health effects of binge drinking in adolescents and college students
Animal models of adolescent and adult binge alcohol use
Binge drinking, impaired driving and other health risk behaviors
Binge drinking and emergency department visits
Screening and brief interventions in the emergency department
Behavioral control models and alcohol : why loss of control over drinking might stem from neurocognitive changes when drinking
Binge drinkers and their particular vulnerability to the acute effects of alcohol
Binge drinking and alcohol tolerance
Before the first drink : at risk individuals for the binge consumption of alcohol
Alcohol expectancies and binge alcohol use
Trendy cocktails : mixing energy drinks and alcohol
Prevention and intervention strategies
Binge drinking in young people : where do we go from here?

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