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The article presents a longitudinal analysis of drinking and victimization among college women. Topics discussed include reciprocal relationship between alcohol drinking and severe personal physical and sexual victimization in college women, studies highlighting positive relation between alcohol use of women and thier severe sexual victimization, and necessity of usage of prevention interventions prior to college to decrease drinking to intoxication and the increased risk of victimization.

The article assesses the temporal relationships among alcohol use, aggression and mood using daily data from 179 college women. Participants called an interactive voice response system over an eight-week period. It showed that the odds of experiencing verbal, sexual and physical aggression were significantly higher on heavy drinking days compared to non-drinking days. The odds of alcohol consumption were three times higher during the 24 hour following verbal aggression compared with days in which verbal aggression did not occur. It showed that women's positive mood was decreased during the week following sexual aggression.