Binge drinking

Binge drinking among college students is a problem that every state, in the United States, has to battle. Binge drinking among college students not only poses health risks to the individual drinker but also to everyone around that individual. The legal drinking age in the United States is currently twenty-one; however, the age restriction should be dropped to eighteen. Various people have different views and opinions about alcohol; ergo, everyone cannot be considered to have the right answers.…

however, it may also be the last. Binge drinking is defined by The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) in “Drinking levels defined” as the level of alcohol consumption that brings blood alcohol concentrations (BAC) to 0.08 g/dL. In recent years, there has been a rise in the availability of alcoholic beverages and a decrease in the cost of alcohol. As a result, there has been an increase in the number of young adults and college students who binge drink and are…

As a community we all need to understand the affects that drinking can have on college students. To many it is a social activity and to some it is a deadly path to head down. College drinking most of the time isn't just a casual thing, it turns into excessive binge drinking. This excessive drinking not only effects the students, but their schools, families and communities. Binge drinking effects students school, work socialization and even effects their health all in a negative way. Colleges…

alcohol use in youth. Exposure to billboards, magazines, and broadcast media advertising of alcohol is said to model drinking behavior. It is believed that if a change is to occur in perception of alcohol among college-aged individuals, it must be focused on enacting change on multiple levels of society. This change would therefore lead to less of an ability to justify binge drinking (Wagenaar and Wolfson…

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…

beige drinking, the author starts her inquiry into binge drinking at a university of Maddison, when she attends a party. The author then interviews students who are binge drinking, and ask them some questions about their activities. The author then goes on to site data from both news reports and collage study’s on the topic of binge drinking, the data from collage study’s goes on to explain how a inquire from Harvard in 1997 explains that about 43 percent of college students admitted to binge…

Collaborative Learning is a Solution for Binge Drinking By Jumana Edor Kenneth Bruffee argues that collaborative learning is a worldwide solution to social difficulties at colleges and that it is a solution to binge drinking. He believes that freshman college students often join sororities and fraternities to “make friends” and to “fit in” also that they would be willing to do anything. I strongly agree with Bruffee, if colleges created peer tutoring, team projects, or just had students sit…

The goal of my study is to have a better understanding of why young people are more likely statistically to become binge drinkers, the act of consuming excessive amounts of alcohol in one sitting to reach drunkenness, than people of other ages. History often repeats itself. Humans are naturally selfish and often fall back into the same sinful ways. It is a common notion that people want what they cannot have. When the United States government restricted alcohol consumption in the early 1900s,…

students in binge drink. Some other factors that can lead students to drink are wanting to fit in or being pressured by the people they associate themselves with. With all of the uncontrollable drinking, it leads to deaths, assaults, injuries, unprotected sex, sexual abuse, health problems, and more. College drinking is a serious problem because most of the students cannot control their intake of alcohol or they tend to binge drink which can lead to consequences. Therefore, the drinking on a…

drinking-missing class to failing or having to drop out”( Hallblanco par. 1). Maybe they did not receive the education or pay attention but they're not the only ones if that's the case, according to the CDC “4 out of 5 college students drink. Two out of three engages in binge drinking. 90% of alcohol consumed by young people is consumed while binge drinking”(Hallblanco par. 1). The college kids who may drink every once in awhile isn't the problem, the problem is how dangerous this can get out of…