| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 215 pages) |
| Contents |
This is the shit show! an introduction to college drinking -- Getting wasted : the intoxication process -- Being wasted : feeling good, being social, having adventures -- When everything falls apart : meeting the challenges of the college drinking scene -- The morning after : hangovers and regrets -- Using drunk support : responding to the persistence of heavy drinking |
| Summary |
Most American college campuses are home to a vibrant drinking scene where students frequently get wasted, train-wrecked, obliterated, hammered, destroyed, and decimated. The terms that university students most commonly use to describe severe alcohol intoxication share a common theme: destruction, and even after repeated embarrassing, physically unpleasant, and even violent drinking episodes, students continue to go out drinking together. In Getting Wasted, Thomas Vander Ven provides a unique answer to the perennial question of why college students drink. Vander Ven argues that college student |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Credits |
Produced by the publisher |
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Held by CAPER-BC, Langara College |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
College students -- Alcohol use -- United States
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SELF-HELP -- Substance Abuse & Addictions -- Alcoholism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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College students -- Alcohol use
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011005585 |
| ISBN |
9780814788400 |
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0814788408 |
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9780814744413 |
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0814744419 |
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