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most healthy individuals can have a couple of drinks, an hour apart, without interfering with their studies, their coordination, perceptions, speech, or feelings.

As a parent and a long-time member of a university community, familiar with drinking problems ir many countries, 1 am convinced that most young people should learn both how to drink, and how not to drink — whether that means declining a drink, avoiding certain places or people, or simply how to hold a glass for a long time, thereby avoiding social pressure.

For many, it can be fun to drink a little — with food, with talk, with no intention of getting drunk. There is a rapidly increasing body of evidence that shows moderate drinkers (about two drinks a day for males, and one for females) have much less risk of cardiovascular disease and lower death rates from almost all causes, compared both to non-drinkers and heavy drinkers.

No one needs to drink — even in college — if they don’t want to. But, among those who want to, it is important that they have some realistic guidelines.

1) Never drink just for the sake of drinking, as a game or contest, with the aim of getting drink, or to forget your troubles.

2) Don’t drink on an empty stom

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