Table 2.
Percent of Students Who Experienced Each Consequence During the 21st Birthday Week
| Negative Consequences | 21st Birthday Week |
|---|---|
| Headache (hangover) the morning after drinking | 47.80% |
| Feel very sick to your stomach or throw up after drinking | 37.80% |
| Wake up the morning after a good bit of drinking and find that you could not remember a part of the evening before | 30.40% |
| Drinking contests or drinking games (e.g. ‘quarters’, chugging contests, ‘progressive’ parties) | 21.70% |
| Show up late for work or school because of drinking, a hangover, or an illness caused by drinking | 12.30% |
| Become rude, obnoxious, or insulting after drinking | 8.40% |
| Skip an evening meal because you were drinking | 7.90% |
| Sexual situations which you later regretted | 3.30% |
| Damage property, set off a false alarm, or other things like that after you had been drinking | 1.80% |
| Neglect to use birth control or neglect to protect yourself from sexually transmitted diseases | 1.60% |
| Have sex with someone you wouldn't ordinarily have sex with | 1.10% |
| Have sex when you didn't really want to | 1.00% |
| Physical fights when drinking | 0.90% |
| Drive a car when you knew you had too much to drink | 0.80% |
| Pressure or force someone to have sex with you after you had been drinking? | 0.60% |
| Pressured or forced to have sex with someone because you were too drunk to prevent it | 0.40% |
| Arrested for drunk driving, driving while intoxicated, or driving under the influence? | 0.30% |
| Arrested, even for a few hours, because of other drunken behavior | 0.20% |