Binge drinking

For the past 32 years in the United States, the minimum legal drinking age has been twenty-one years old; the drinking age in the United States should be lowered in order to protect those it prohibits. In comparison to other countries around the world, our country has the highest minimum legal age to date. According to the American Public Health Association, this topic is the most popularly studied alcohol-control policy (Nelson). Many discussions have came to pass over the years, with people…

relationship is associated with adolescent alcohol use or abuse” (872,878), since adolescents that described their relationship with their parents as negative reported both more life-time alcohol use, more recent alcohol use, and more frequent binge drinking than adolescents that described their relationship as positive (878). She also mentioned that parents have different rules towards alcohol use; restrictive rules were effective when it was combined with high quality and frequent…

There has been many reports that linked binge drinking to nonconsensual sexual events that led up to rape when people are intoxicated. In addition to this matter, Emily Yoffe relates a story of a young college girl that went to a bar and met a male classmate. At this bar, he offered himself to escort her as they went out from the bar where she was drinking. She drank so much that she was so disoriented to the point of walking out from the bar with…

the pain due to lack of support. In schools and colleges, alcohol consumption is related to academic problems, assaults, risky sexual activities and even deaths on frequent basis. As of 2009, 24 percent of high school students reported heavy or binge drinking episodes.…

friendships. The one topic not specified in their prideful history would be hazing. There have been many accounts of hazing throughout the years of developing Greek structures. Many were arrested for underaged drinking, some have been emotionally destroyed, and many have died. Binge drinking is a huge problem when it comes to these Greek organizations. Many feel the need to keep up with and impress their senior members. They don't realize…

Despite measures to restrict the age limit on the consumption of alcohol, it is still a prevalent problem in many communities. Communities are saturated with residential treatment programs, self-help groups, and Alcoholics Anonymous, however; binge drinking, motor vehicle accidents, and social problems are still a concern. Society has created a platform in which alcohol is used as a mascot to entice individuals to go overboard with alcohol consumption. At one time, alcoholism was viewed as a…

question that alcohol contributes to a surplus of problems in Greek life. In a Harvard University study, it was found that four out of five fraternity or sorority members were binge drinkers, and an astounding eighty-three percent of other members constantly suffer as a result of other’s alcohol consumption. This heavy drinking can undoubtedly lead to other kinds of substance abuse and involvement in dangerous…

share some of the same risk. Both are often blind to the dangers and underlying problems caused while being under the influence of alcohol. Just as alcoholics, social drinkers have also been in trouble with the law as a consequence of habitual drinking. Drinking and driving and public intoxication is another risk, and have been on the rise more than often. Both, alcoholics and social drinkers have been associated with having common traits similarly linked between the two. Another similarity…

Prohibition: Temptation Vs. Morality Ken Burns, producer of Prohibition states that “by 1830, the average American over 15 years old consumed nearly seven gallons of pure alcohol a year”, which is three times more than the modern annual consumption. Many organizations believed alcohol was the culprit behind the lack of moral standards and the increase in abuse, whether that be domestic or internal; but in the attempt to outlaw the sale of alcohol, the government saw a rise in organized crime…

Educate yourself, your family, your friends, or children about the dangers of alcohol abuse. Help them realize that drinking too much could increase the chances of them getting cancer. Substance abuse is a serious problem and it affects not only the individual, but hurts everyone around them as well. Drinking too heavily can cause the individual to develop anemia, which is a disease that will cause their oxygen-carrying red blood cells to be far too low. Anemia has a lot of terrible symptoms,…