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    Did you know that there are more than 1,200 student clubs and organizations in an average American university? For instance Ohio State University also has more than 1,200 student clubs, many are used as a medium to find a career path or new student groups. As author Kenneth Bruffeet writes in Binge Drinking as a Substitute for “community of learning, binge drinking apparently correlates to a bad learning atmosphere. Bruffeet continues to write about how the leading factor of binge drinking is the social environments of Greek housing systems. Although Greek housing systems do provide a sense of belonging, there are multiple alternatives that universities have created, in order to make students feel a part of something bigger without the risky behavior of binge drinking.…

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    Binge Drinking Experiment

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    Binge drinking is known as the pattern of drinking that raises blood alcohol concentration (BAC) levels to 0.08 g/dL [3]. Typically, the pattern occurs after 4 drinks for women and 5 drinks for men in the period of 2 hours [3]. According to Shukla et. al, alcohol overconsumption through binge drinking is an emerging major health concern common in young adult population in US and generally around the globe. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six adults binge…

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    Binge Drinking In America

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    drinking. So many Americans are concerned about this problem getting worse, from the parents who think this can't happen to their perfect child, to students in school worried about falling under peer pressure. Everyone can agree that this is a problem, however, they all believe that this cannot and won't happen to someone they are close too. Actions need to be taken and solutions need to be made either way. Professor Ross Douthat as with many others know that binge drinking can be very…

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    Binge Drinking Theory

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    issue of binge drinking which is becoming increasingly normal among young adults and is defined as the consumption of an excessive amount of alcohol in a short space of time. Binge drinking has become the norm in the 21’s century and associated risks are often not looked at. Alcohol is one of the leading causes of preventable mortality in more economically developed countries. Alcohol consumption is also linked to motor accidents, inappropriate behaviour and violence (Mochdad, Marks, Stroup, &…

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    Binge Drinking In College

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    Binge drinking. We have all heard of it whether from conversations or seen it in television and movies. Binge drinking has been around for a long time and shows no signs of disappearing any time soon. Binge drinking is prevalent on college campuses and even shows signs in high schools. The act of binge drinking is deemed as consuming four (females)/ five (males) or more alcoholic beverages in a span of two hours CDC. As depicted in films and television, typically it is males who partake in binge…

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    Binge drinking alcohol has been become a custom among adolescents. There are several reasons that make this behavior more prevalent, according to (Morrow, 2017). The first and most apparent reason why adolescents are more likely to binge drinking is because “it’s fun.” There is a direct correlation between binge drinking and partying because “in parties to the point where a party without any alcohol is deemed somewhat of a dampener.” Additionally, it is a way “to assert their dominance or…

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    Binge Drinking In College

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    successfully explains why drinking has become so trendy on college campuses and why college and drinking have now become synonyms with one another. To achieve this understanding, he collected 400 student accounts, 25 intensive interviews, and over 100 hours of field research on the topic. What he found was that college students continue to engage in binge drinking as a…

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    Binge Drinking Causes

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    Binge drinking causes liver inflammation and the liver could stop working. It causes steatosis, or fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, fibrosis, and cirrhosis. All of these problems are diseases, and if the disease worsens, the liver could fail. Liver failure is a life-threatening condition, whereas if someone were to not get a transplant, they would die. Alcohol has many long and short term effects. According to “Short and Long Term Effects,” alcohol produces lower ambition, a reduction in…

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    Binge Drinking Stigma

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    Young Adults’ Binge Drinking Alcohol is an important part of the social aspect in many cultures across the globe. It is often a pastime of many during various occasions. One could argue that it would be difficult not to see alcohol, in some way or another, on a day-to-day basis. However, particularly in the United States, there is a very negative stigma behind the aspect of drinking as a society, undermining the potential education of alcohol to the adolescents. The stigma of alcohol in the…

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    Binge Drinking: Main Cause of Death in U.S. Binge drinking spiked in the mid-to-late 90s (“Making Sense of the Stats on Binge Drinking”), in 2006 alone it cost the United States $223.5 billion (“Fact Sheets - Binge Drinking”). Some people think binge drinking should be defined as anyone who is overly intoxicated which leads to harmful or destructive behaviors (Hanson). Binge drinking among men is more common than among women (“Fact Sheets - Binge Drinking”), but statistics show 23,000 deaths of…

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