{"id":182731,"date":"2025-10-20T16:36:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=182731"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:56","slug":"fewer-students-drink-alcohol-but-just-as-many-heavy-drinkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2025\/10\/20\/fewer-students-drink-alcohol-but-just-as-many-heavy-drinkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer students drink alcohol, but just as many \u2018heavy drinkers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although fewer students are drinking alcohol, one in four in higher education remains a \u2018heavy drinker\u2019. University students still turn out to be the most frequent drinkers.<\/p>\n

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In front of a student house in Kralingen, these students are having a drink, and a cigarette.<\/span><\/p>

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Around eighty per cent of young people drink alcohol occasionally, according to figures<\/a> from the RIVM, the Trimbos Institute and Statistics Netherlands (CBS). The data come from health surveys conducted between 2022 and 2024.<\/p>\n

That is six percentage points less than in the previous survey from 2015\/2017, when 86 per cent of young people aged 18 to 25 said they drank alcohol. Among university students, alcohol use remains the highest at ninety per cent. In universities of applied sciences, the figure is 86 per cent, and in vocational colleges 74 per cent.<\/p>\n

However, the proportion of \u2018heavy drinkers\u2019 among young people has hardly fallen. In universities of applied sciences, it has even increased. Roughly one in four students in higher education drinks at least once a week six glasses (for men) or four glasses (for women).<\/p>\n\n\t

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