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February 14, 2004

Put down that damn beer

College Rapes Tied to Binge Drinking
By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, Feb. 12 (HealthDayNews) -- Binge drinking and rape seem to go hand-in-hand on U.S. college campuses.

A new study has found colleges and universities with higher rates of binge drinking also have more rapes. In addition, nearly three-quarters of rape victims reported being intoxicated at the time of the attack.

Rape victim advocates are critical of the findings, which appear in a recent issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol.

"Binge drinking is unhealthy. No one questions that, [but] putting the blame for rape on alcohol is an excuse. In reality, the decision of the attacker to commit rape is the only cause of that crime," says Jamie Zuieback, a spokeswoman for the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network in Washington, D.C. "We've worked very hard to foster a simple, undisputable understanding that rapists alone are responsible for this decision to commit this heinous crime. I think that this kind of study can be very harmful to that message. This is a crime. It's criminal behavior, period."

The study authors deny they have done this. "We're not blaming these women. The men who raped them are the guilty parties," says study author Henry Wechsler, director of College Alcohol Studies at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. "We're pointing out the danger of certain high-drinking situations."

What's more, Wechsler and his colleagues are hoping the findings will be used to ramp up college prevention programs. "Most efforts around drinking are tied to automobile fatalities, and people are generally aware of this connection," Wechsler says. "In the public, there's less of a realization of the relationship of heavy alcohol use to rape. There may be a number of incidents where this is reported as occurring, but there hasn't been a quantification of this before now on the college scene."

Regardless of its exact consequences, binge drinking is indisputably a major problem on most college campuses, as is rape. Previous research has indicated alcohol is associated with at least half of sexual assaults on female college students.

Posted by P6 at February 14, 2004 03:01 PM
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Maybe its binge drinking by the men that leads to rapes. It seems sort of strange that they immediately focused on the women's drinking.

Posted by Al-Muhajabah at February 15, 2004 01:40 AM

It's actually both...the researcher is correct in his last statement about alcohol and inhibitions. He's also right that campuses need to tie rape prevention programs with binge drinking prevention programs.

all their conclusions seemed rather obvious to me but i've spent the last four years in this type of setting.

Posted by terry at February 15, 2004 04:09 PM