A Summer Assignment

摘要

Note to parents of college students home for the summer: Sometime during these jampacked weeks of job demands and friends, you may want to schedule a nice long visit with the doctor. When the kids aren't sleeping, they may seem too brimming with health to bother. But many young adults—having outgrown the pediatrician without graduating to a new doctor—are getting no preventive care, and experts say they badly need it. Consider: Nearly half of full-time college students binge drink, use prescription drugs recreationally, or abuse illegal drugs each month, according to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.