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Around midnight one night in 1999, I was radioed by the EMTs: they were bringing in two "drunk" college students. This was hardly an uncommon occurrence. Many a college student has been mortified to wake up in the emergency room looking into the eyes of a college administrator who knew that a stressful semester or a campus party could spell danger. Widespread alcohol abuse on college campuses and its sometimes fatal consequences have long raised alarm, and the signs and symptoms of cocaine or marijuana abuse are commonly known.

But there was something different about these students. Apparently healthy college . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. McGinn is an emergency physician at Mt. Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Mass., and Harvard Medical School, Boston.

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