Alcohol Abuse In College Culture

College culture today is the “unspoken rules that college students learn to “fit in”, these cultures differ from campus to campus”. But unfortunately, there are some similarities. One of these similarities being alcohol abuse. Which has its own “college culture”. The College culture of drinking is the idea that alcohol is a necessary part for social success. Which exerts a powerful influence over students’ behavior toward alcohol. The need for alcohol awareness programs for college students is great. About 1,825 students between the ages of 18-24die from alcohol related un-intentional injuries. About 696,000 between ages of 18-24 are assaulted by someone under the influence and 97,000 are victims of alcohol related sexual assault or date rape. Previous programs were not designed …show more content…
Making programs and help readily available to help college students throughout their education would also be helpful. If parents would educate their teens about binge drinking and alcohol/drug abuse would help get ahead of the game, also there’s a no questions asked agreement where your young adult can call or text and have you pick them up, or have a sober friend come get them, maybe between both it will hopefully guide future college students of the dangers of that lifestyle. It was heartbreaking and terrifying to see that family go through that. Having an adolescent, I know it won’t be too long before he’ll be going off to college. I know my job as his parent is to educate him about the dangers of alcohol and drug use, and real friends will never put you in the position to feel like you must drink or do drugs. Having worked medical for 3 years I’ve seen a lot of “close calls” to know this problem really needs to be fixed, having never lived on campus of a college I’ve never witnessed the college