Medical Xpress: PHYSorg news tagged with: blackout http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Excessive drinking costs U.S. colleges millions annually (HealthDay) -- The emergency room costs of treating college students with injuries associated with alcohol-induced blackouts can be more than half a million dollars a year at a university with 40,000 or more students, a new study found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-excessive-colleges-millions-annually.html Health Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:20:01 EST news251383230 Drinking until you forget leads to injuries for college kids "I don't remember how I got home from the party." This could be a text from last night to one hard-partying college student from another. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-injuries-college-kids.html Health Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:53:20 EST news229607590 Drink-fueled memory blackouts among students predict future injury risk The higher the number of drink fuelled memory blackouts a student experiences, the greater is his/her risk of sustaining a future injury while under the influence, reveals research published online in Injury Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-drink-fueled-memory-blackouts-students-future.html Health Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:36:49 EST news228627398