France, it varies from region to region. Brittany for example has a reputation of heavy drinkers, and having lived there for a while it's a bit deserved. Also,

France, it varies from region to region. Brittany for example has a reputation of heavy drinkers, and having lived there for a while it's a bit deserved. Also, students parties can be quite alcohol heavy, specially the start of the year parties. For example, in business and engineering schools, you have the WEI (Week End of Integration), basically, most of the students go in a remote location to get drunk for most of a Week-End (including during the 3 or 4 hours bus trip), there, you see some people completely passing out. After that, during the year, you see people getting drunk, but very rarely to the point of passing out. However, the consumption of alcohol as a student can easily be continuous, for example, in my school of ~450 students, we had a bar managed by the students, with a license to serve alcohols like beer or cider, and some students ended-up border line alcoholics.