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Class-Level Differences in Alcohol and Drug Use Among
CU-Boulder Undergraduates Spring 1999

(Freshmen N=106, Sophomores N=83, Seniors N=102)

1. Students drink more in the earlier years of college. Lower-division students are more likely to binge when drinking and to drink to get drunk.


2. Upper-division students are more likely to have ever thought they had a drinking problem, even though they currently drink less than lower division students.


3. Upper-division students are more likely to drink and drive (note that upper-division students are more likely to live off-campus and have access to their own cars).


4. Lower division students report more consequences of drinking, like missing a class or doing something they later regret.


5. Freshmen in particular seem most likely to:
   • Miss a class.
   • Do something they later regret.
   • Get hurt or injured.
6. Negative consequences of others’ drinking are largest in the earlier years of college. In particular, lower-division students are more likely to be the victim of an unwanted advance or to have to “babysit” a drunk fellow student.

Graphs:

• Binge Drinking Rates
• High-Risk Alcohol Consumption
• Drinking and Driving Rates
• Cigarette and Other Drug Use
• High School and College Binge Drinking Behaviors
• Secondary Effects of Alcohol Use
• Secondary Effects of Alcohol Use cont'd
• More Secondary Effects of Alcohol Use

Results in tabular format

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*Does not include hangover, but does include driving after drinking
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