Hammered And Heedless: Do Dangerous Drinking Videos Harm Teens? [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 2/23/1512:00 PM

Type "drunk," "hammered," or "trashed" into YouTube's search bar and some pretty unsavory videos are likely to turn up.

And that can't be good for teenagers and young adults, researchers say. User-generated YouTube videos portraying dangerous drinking get hundreds of millions of views online, according a study published Friday in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

These videos often present wild bingeing in a humorous light, the study found, without showing any of the negative consequences, like potentially fatal alcohol poisoning and accidents caused by drunk driving.

The researchers didn't reveal which videos they looked at, to avoid singling out particular YouTube users.

[For more of this story, written by Maanvi Singh, go to http://www.npr.org/blogs/healt...ng-videos-harm-teens]

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