Students do occasionally die after binges here in Britain, but not with
this sort of frequency. Cases of young people dying after bingeing on
alcohol are reported in the press every now and then. I do not know whether
there are other similar deaths which pass unreported. I would doubt it,
however, as it is the sort of story that appeals to our tabloid newspapers.
There is one obvious explanation why these cases go unreported in the
States but are given publicity in Britain, and why (it seems) we have many
fewer such deaths over here - the fact that drinking under the age of 21 is
permitted in Britain but not in the States, so students are not forced into
drinking in secret, in binges.