College boys are just as likely to experience violence on campus as are college girls, according to a report in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

"We've known that drinking increases the risk of perpetuating violence," said the study's leader, Professor Elizabeth Saewyc of the University of British Columbia. "In this study we found alcohol consumption puts both young men and women at higher risk of being victimized."

• The study found that 17 percent of college men and 16 percent of college women reported emotional or physical violence in the past six months.
• Half the emotional and 20 percent of the physical violence came from romantic partner.
• Sixty percent of the men reported violence associated with drinking, compared to only 30 percent of the females in the study.

The study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

Labels: alcohol_abuse, college_students, violence

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