Excess of drinking taken up by the students who were either undergraduates or postgraduates had resulted in injuries and blackouts. The researchers from the US and Canada wanted to find out that how many blackouts and injuries did a student face on an average after extreme alcoholism.

The researchers of the US and Canada examined 800 undergraduates and 150 postgraduates of 5 universities in North America. The researchers found that excess of alcoholism was quiet a common view inside the university premises and more than 50% of the students had experienced at least one wash out of memory within a year and around 7% had admitted of experiencing 6 blackouts.

The students belonging to the age group of 18 to 20 were found to be the most effected from alcoholism and were unable to remember whatever happened after they were heavily drunk. As per the researchers in a journal on Injury Prevention, "Our results suggest that memory blackout screening at student health services could be a useful tool in college alcohol-related injury prevention". In 2001, about 600,000 college students in the United States suffered alcohol-related injuries; in 2005, nearly 2,000 died of such injuries, according to the statistics revealed in the journal.