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Alcohol Use in College Introduction: This psychology article is titled: Alcohol Use in College, with emphasized focus on alcohol use and binge drinking as goal-directed action during the transition to postsecondary education. This study was conducted by J.L. Maggs, with the research being performed in Canada. Alcohol consumption was selected as the focus risk behavior for this study because of the very high prevalence of alcohol use and binge drinking among late adolescence and young adult students and because of the potential for serious negative consequences due to alcohol misuse (Siggner, 1988). The college years represent an opportunity to postpone the assumption of full adult responsibility, along with providing a save haven for exploration, a developmental moratorium. Background: This study argues that late adolescence and early adult alcohol use along with binge drinking can be usefully conceived as a purposive action directed toward the pursuit of developmentally normative goals. As the text states; it is a particularly interesting time (transition to postsecondary education) to study risk behaviors such as alcohol use due to several factors. First, moving away from home to college leads to a dramatic change i