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315–17. (No ethics board would approve this experiment today.) The story about the salesman who
experienced a five-day blackout is also drawn from this source.
Police sobriety checkpoints (in footnote): Joann Wells et al., “Drinking Drivers Missed at Sobriety
Checkpoints,” Journal of Studies on Alcohol (1997): 58, 513–17.
one of the first comprehensive surveys of college drinking: Robert Straus and Selden Bacon,
Drinking in College (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953), p. 103.
Aaron White recently surveyed more than 700 Duke students: Aaron M. White et al.,
“Prevalence and Correlates of Alcohol-Induced Blackouts Among College Students: Results of an
E-Mail Survey,” Journal of American College Health 51, no. 3 (2002): 117–31,
doi:10.1080/07448480209596339.

In a remarkable essay (in footnote): Ashton Katherine Carrick, “Drinking to Blackout,” New York
Times, September 19, 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/09/19/opinion/drinking-to-blackout.html.
the consumption gap between men and women…has narrowed: William Corbin et al., “Ethnic
differences and the closing of the sex gap in alcohol use among college-bound students,”
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors 22, no. 2 (2008): 240–48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0893-
164X.22.2.240.
Nor is it just a matter of weight (in footnote): “Body Measurements,” National Center for Health
Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health & Human
Services, May 3, 2017, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/body-measurements.htm.
There are also meaningful differences (in footnote): Numbers found using online blood-alcohol
calculator at http://www.alcoholhelpcenter.net/program/bac_standalone.aspx.
“Let’s be totally clear…prevent more victims”: Emily Yoffe, “College Women: Stop Getting
Drunk,” Slate, October 16, 2013, slate.com/human-interest/2013/10/sexual-assault-and-drinking-
teach-women-the-connection.html.
Adults feel quite differently (in footnote): Statistic is from Washington Post/Kaiser Family
Foundation poll.
“Persons learn about drunkenness…deserve what they get”: Craig MacAndrew and Robert B.
Edgerton, Drunken Comportment: A Social Explanation (Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company,
1969), pp.172–73.

“My independence, natural joy…not how to drink less”: Emily Doe’s Victim Impact Statement,
pp. 7–9, https://www.sccgov.org/sites/da/newsroom/newsreleases/Documents/B-Turner%20VIS.pdf.