'Liquor before beer, you're in the clear': binge drinking and other risk behaviours among fraternity/sorority members and their non-Greek peers.
Objective: To examine 'college drinking culture' and explore alcohol use and other variables among a sample of US college students. Methods: Bivariate crosstabulation and logistic regression analyses were used to examine associations between alcohol use, gender, Greek membership and risk behaviours...
| Published in: | Journal of Substance Use Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 323 - 340 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2012
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