LIKE many students enjoying the newfound freedom of college, the young man accelerated the drinking he had begun at prep school. ”You go nuts,” he explains, looking back, seemingly both amazed and disgusted. At 6-foot-1 and 215 pounds, he was able to put away up to 18 beers a night at weekend parties. ”It was crazy,” says the student, now a junior at Fairfield University, adding that afterward, ”I’d feel like death all day.”
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