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• NBCNews.com
  Penn State Fraternity Death: Timothy Piazza’s Parents Say Son Treated Like ‘Road Kill’
  May 15, 2017

  The parents of a Penn State University student who fatally fell down stairs during an alcohol-fueled event described their son's death as "torture" and said the fraternity brothers involved "treated our son as road kill."

• Philadelphia Inquirer
  Editorial: Lesson in human decency might have saved Penn State student's life
  May 15, 2017

  The preventable death of Penn State student Tim Piazza, a 19-year-old, inebriated kid who died of injuries received in a fall while being hazed by fraternity members whom he considered brothers, is no isolated case.

• New York Times
  4 Plead Guilty in Baruch College Student’s Hazing Death
  May 15, 2017

  Four men initially charged with murder in the hazing death of a Baruch College freshman pleaded guilty to reduced charges on Monday.

• MMWR Weekly
  Current and Binge Drinking Among High School Students — United States, 1991–2015
  May 12, 2017

  Each year from 2006 to 2010, excessive alcohol consumption was responsible for approximately 4,300 deaths among persons aged <21 years, and, in 2010, underage drinking cost the United States $24.3 billion.

• Philadelphia Inquirer
  What brain science could reveal about Penn State fraternity tragedy
  May 12, 2017

  What do you get when you mix a bunch of still-developing, college-student brains, emotional immaturity, and an epic amount of alcohol? A fraternity party on a typical American college campus, a lot of people would say.

• HealthDay New
  Fewer U.S. high school students drinking alcohol, CDC says
  May 11, 2017

  Drinking among U.S. high school students has plummeted in recent years, a new government report shows.

• News-Medical.net
  Research explores effect of alcohol on adolescent brain
  May 11, 2017

  Under 18, no alcohol. In spite of this slogan, adolescents still have access to alcohol. But how harmful is that one beer for the adolescent brain? Research, including in Leiden, may provide the answer.

• Medical Express
  How harmful is alcohol for the adolescent brain?
  May 11, 2017

  Under 18, no alcohol. In spite of this slogan, adolescents still have access to alcohol. But how harmful is that one beer for the adolescent brain? Research, including in Leiden, may provide the answer.

• Washington Post
  ‘Heart-wrenching and incomprehensible’: 18 fraternity members charged in Penn State hazing death
  May 6, 2017

  Eighteen fraternity members were charged in the death of a 19-year-old Pennsylvania State University student who fell multiple times after consuming toxic levels of alcohol — and whose own friends failed to get help for him for many hours, authorities said.

• USA Today
  8 charged with manslaughter in fraternity hazing death at Penn State
  May 5, 2017

  Eight members of Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Pennsylvania State University are being charged with involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault in the death of Tim Piazza, a Penn State sophomore who died after participating in hazing rituals at the fraternity house in February, according to documents from the Centre County District Attorney’s office.

• North by Northwestern
  The science behind your night out: alcohol and you
  May 2, 2017

  Here’s how your night went down through the lens of science (the last thing you want to think about right now).

• Iowa City Press Citizen
  University of Iowa fraternities, sororities ban all events with alcohol
  May 1, 2017

  One day after the death of University of Iowa student in Missouri, leaders of the University of Iowa Greek community called for an immediate and permanent ban on all out-of-town formal events for their member chapters and also instituted an immediate ban on fraternity and sorority events with alcohol.

• Wall Street Journal
  Should You Tell Your Teen You Tried Alcohol or Drugs?
  April 25, 2017

  Being honest with your children without making any past recklessness sound entertaining can help them make smarter choices

• U.S. News & World Report
  College Presidents Sign Pact to Address Alcohol, Drug Abuse
  April 24, 2017

  The presidents of most West Virginia colleges and universities have signed a pact to address alcohol and drug abuse on their respective campuses.

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  Editorial - Alcohol wake-up call: Problems could bring Greek life at PSU to an end
  April 24, 2017

  Penn State University has threatened to abolish Greek life because of rampant alcohol problems at its flagship campus in University Park. That’s a sobering message and one the university must stand behind.

• Centre Daily Times
  Penn State suspends Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity
  April 20, 2017

  A fraternity Penn State President Eric Barron singled out as a rule-breaker has at least a two-year timeout.

• UCSF
  PR: For young adults, cigarettes more pleasurable with alcohol than with pot
  April 18, 2017

  Young adults get more pleasure from smoking cigarettes while they are drinking alcohol than they do while using marijuana, according to a new UC San Francisco study.