
Out of all the students who consumed alcohol prior to starting college, two-thirds of them used fake ids to obtain the alcohol. If they have fake IDs, they tend to use it about 25% of the time until they turn age 21. A study published online in October and will be published soon in the print journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, studied 1,015 students who had consumed alcohol before entering college. Researchers followed up with participants’ first four years of college.The study “demonstrated that false ID use led to increases in drinking frequency and quantity,” said Ame