In addition, many colleges have their own drug-use policies that may affect your participation. Further, the use of tobacco products is prohibited for coaches, game officials and student-athletes in all sports during practice and competition. A student-athlete who uses tobacco products during practice or competition is automatically disqualified for the remainder of that practice or game. As the local chapter of MADD, we feel drug testing is definitely needed in all realms of society, especially among athletes. Sixty percent of male team members binge on booze, while 45 percent of non-players do.
Women athletes out drink women non-athletes four drinks a week to three.
Forty-seven percent of female players binge drink, compared with 31 percent of those who don't play team sports. The latest and broadest study to date of college athletes and alcohol was performed by The Core Institute at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. They surveyed 51,483 students at 125 colleges and universities between October 1994 and May 1996. The sample included 20,595 men and 30,888 women, athletes and non-athletes. It confirmed that athletes engage in more high-risk behaviors, that they binge more and that they experience more negative consequences.