Educational programs are lusty in helping students to reduce the rate of alcohol abuse and use. However, they require high cost and are not the most efficacious in controlling alcohol abuse among the…
The social change initiative that was discussed in the selected journal was to reduce the BAC (Blood Alcohol Consumption) levels among the freshman of 2001-2002 CSU batch. Around 2000’s, California State University (CSU), Chico has suffered many issues regarding the irregular alcohol behaviour among its freshman (Brown, 2004). There were even some deaths in the campus to support that argument.…
6-7). However, research methods of intervention and prevention mentioned in previous paragraphs combat this belief. While a great many of these methods are effective some of them are ineffective and not cost efficient due to low participation, some college campuses having too high a level of drinking or cost. Despite this, experts are still working to find the best means of raising awareness and lowering alcohol abuse on college campuses. The purpose of this article, is to analyze and offer means of intervention to prevent drinking related problems on college campuses through means of research, education, trial, and error.…
“Although heavy drinking among older adolescents and young adults has declined over the past decade, no such declines have occurred among college students (2). College officials have recently been more interested in reducing the drinking age due to the amount of drinking happening on college campuses and not enough faculty to enforce the laws. “As of November 2009, presidents and chancellors of 135 colleges and universities have signed on to the Amethyst Initiative calling for a public debate about lowering the drinking age” (5). College officials argue that having the law at 21 years old is not being effective enough to prevent youths from consuming alcohol and suffering the negative consequences of drinking. Enforcement of alcohol policies at most colleges is limited, and college environments already have easy access to low cost alcohol so giving them even more access to alcohol would result in many dangerous consequences.…
In the article “College Women: Stop Getting Drunk,” Emily Yoffe from Slate primarily focuses on the story of female students being exposed to potential sexual assault as a consequence of alcohol drinking. However, former colleague of Emily Yoffe strongly argues in the article “To Prevent Rape of College Campuses, Focus on the Rapist, Not the Victims,” Amanda Hess agrees some of the ideas from Yoffe, but she opposes that female college students is not the one who should be careful about sexual assault due to the overdose of alcohol. Hess points out that college should focus on the male student who is primary threats to the plastered girl to prevent a potential threat of sexual assault by strongly punishing and controlling them in college campuses.…
In a commencement speech to Kenyon graduates, David Foster Wallace metaphorically refers to our routine daily lives as water. If this holds any truth, then the metaphorical beverage equivalent with college is alcohol. Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a 40 year ongoing study at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor that surveys approximately 50,000 students a year. MTF reports that 81% of college students, and 86% of young adults from 19 to 28 years old have tried alcohol and alcohol usage has been identified as a major health problem among the college population. Although studies continue show declining alcohol usage in both the non-college attending and college attending age group, the college attending group consistently had overall higher prevalence of alcohol usage.…
Do you know someone that has consumed alcohol at an early age? Growing up alcohol was very evident in my local junior high and high school. My peers consistently talked about going out on the weekends, sometimes even the week and boasting about being the biggest drinker at a local bar they snuck in to or even going as far as describing extravagant narratives about not remembering the night before from partying too extensively. Underage drinking on college campuses are a common issue nationwide. While students and faculty alike are all aware of the issue not much is done or can be done to end underage consumption.…
David, I enjoyed reading your post and I agree with you. There are many negative consequences to excessive college drinking. Having a support system is crucial and imperative to the drinker. Having a support system can prevent harm and allow for safety of the drinker. I agree with you, we must have an open mind and look at this problem from all angles in order to rectify this issue.…
Additionally, education on college campuses significantly reduces binge drinking. The percentage of college drinkers has reached a “record low level of 78% in 2013. . .[and] binge drinking among college students [reaching] the lowest level yet chronicled (35%)” (“Binge Drinking Statistics”).…
I believe the “drinking culture” is something prevalent in almost all colleges around the world, and something glamorized in society, this idea where you get to college party, drink, etc. Therefore I wouldn't necessarily say WVU has a substance abuse problem, but rather the portrayal in society of partying and drinking in college has caused colleges as a whole to have substance abuse problems. Also, with the label of being the number 1 party school, in many ways does encourage this problem. But I do believe the issue has more to do with perception, and what others view as social norms. I believe with the media’s portrayal of college, and partying, it usually involves drinking, and sometimes heavy drinking.…
The two articles “Taking Up Binge Drinking in College: The Influences of Person, Social Group, and Environment” by Elissa R. Weitzman, Toben F. Nelson, and Henry Wechsler, and “Press Release from the Harvard School of Public Health” by Henry Wechsler and Elissa Weitzman, the audience for the two articles is researcher, professors, and college administrators and the purpose of the research studies is to have freshman college students not to drink like they do because it could kill them or get them hurt in many different ways. The purpose of the abstract is to identify person, social group, and environmental factors associated with uptake of binge drinking among a national sample of college students. The important information that this article tells the audience is that college students don’t need to drink as much and it also gives the audience more information on how people use and abuse alcohol among college students. A news article doesn’t an abstract because the abstract is apart of the summary, and not apart of a text.…
Colleges should think about providing “alcohol education and behavior change programs.” Another example that shows that drinking can damage someone’s health is the fact that, “1,825 college students between the ages 18 and 24 die from alcohol-related unintentional injuries, including motor-vehicle crashes” (“College Drinking”). Drinking can definitely cause people to do things they do not originally do and can wipe out their memory on what they did the next day. Campuses should think about having random drug tests to decrease the amount of injuries and deaths students cause to themselves and…
The reality of this culture is that the consequences of college drinking are far more occasional than tragic. Despite the minimal attention given to the less recognizable consequences, high-risk college drinking continues to be more prevalent and disparaging than most people recognize. Injuries, assaults, and other health and academic aspects of this culture are occurring on a daily. This persistent problem affects virtually all college communities and students whether they drink or…
College is an exciting time for many young adults. It is the first step towards adulthood and for a majority of students it’s the first time they experience independence. “Alcohol consumption in humans is the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States (McGinnis & Foege, 1993). A common abuse pattern called binge drinking contributes to a substantial portion of alcohol-related deaths (Chikritzhs, Jonas, Stockwell, Heale, & Dietze, 2001)”. Though with freedom comes responsibility.…
This paper will examine the sociocultural and environmental factors that are responsible for the high rate of excessive alcohol consumption on college campuses with the purpose of recommending effective measures that can be used to correct the problem. Why Do Some Youngsters Drink…