A Case Against "Binge" as the Term of Choice: How to Get College Students to Personalize Messages about Dangerous Drinking
By Linda C. Lederman, Lea P. Stewart, Lisa Laitman, Fern Walter Goodhart, Richard Powell
This report, funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education's Safe and Drug Free Schools Program and published by the Communication and Health Issues Partnership for Education and Research (CHI) at Rutgers, advocates for students' thinking to be taken into account in the terminology used when discussing the prevention of problematic drinking on college campuses. Reprinted with permission from the Communication and Health Issues Partnership for Education and Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Paper presented at the National Communication Association, Atlanta, GA, 2001, and in an earlier version at the National Conference on Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention, Pittsburgh, 2000.
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