Higher Drinking Age Linked To Less Binge Drinking -- Except In College Students.

And if you did not think going to college was perilous, just from acquired STDs, now a new study has found substantial reductions in binge drinking since the national drinking age was set at 21 two decades ago, with one exception: college students. The rates of binge drinking in male collegians remain unchanged, but the rates in female collegians have increased dramatically.