New Study: High School Drinkers Become College Drinkers

According to a new study from the University of Maryland, the amount that a person drinks in High School is a strong indicator of the amount that they will drink in College.

The researchers checked how closely parents monitored their kids’ activities in high school (Who’s going to be there? What time are you coming home? Were Tom’s parents there?”) and then checked how much alcohol they drank .

The closer the parents monitored high school behavior, the less the kids drank. And the more the kids drank in high school, the more they drank in college.

“High school drinking level by far was the strongest predictor of college drinking,” said a researcher.

But interesting to note is that high school supervision didn’t necessarily translate into less drinking in college.

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