There has been much attention and concern about binge drinking among college-age students.
But what about high school students?
That's what the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research wanted to learn about.
As part of its annual Monitoring the Future Study, researchers collected data from more than 16,000 high school seniors. They were surveyed between 2005-and-2011.
And what they learned should be a true warning to parents of high schoolers.
Developmental psychologist Megan Patrick was the lead author of this study, and she joined us today.
Listen to the full interview above.
