University Students Drinking Themselves To Permanent Brain Damage

More than a third of university students, a recent survey has revealed, consume harmful levels of alcohol which could even result in permanent brain damage.

According to a study published in New Scientist journal, tertiary students drank more heavily than their non-student peers yet were often unaware their drinking was risky.

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Perth's Curtin University's 7237 students aged 17 to 24 were surveyed to find that 34 per cent of them were in the "hazardous/harmful" range of alcohol intake.

According to researcher Kypros Kypri, it is the 18- and 19-year-olds who are the heaviest drinkers and the "main target" for the alcohol industry.

"There is a hell of a lot of promotion in and around many universities," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted him as saying.

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He brought to focus the point that most people imagine others drink more than them.

He said. "People think other people are drinking more, taking more drugs, having more sex.

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" It's possible that that sort of cognitive bias is making people drink more heavily. All first-year students should be encouraged to check their drinking."

The study put to use an interactive website which screened information on how to get help for alcohol abuse.

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