Full-time university students in the US are more likely to be heavy drinkers than young adults who aren't enrolled in college, according to a new federal report.
But they're no more likely to experiment with other drugs, including marijuana, than other people their age. And college students are far less likely to smoke cigarettes than other young adults.
Those findings come from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), using data from the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
The survey found that roughly 59.8 per cent of full-time college students aged 18 to 22 drank at least monthly, compared to 51.5 per cent of young adults not in college.
More strikingly, while only 17.9 per cent of university students smoked cigarettes in the past month, a whopping 32.6 per cent of young adults not in college were past-month cigarette smokers.