Binge drinking

The drinking age has been a common topic of discussion for years now. Both sides have very valid arguments. That being if we should keep the drinking age in the United States at 21 or if we should lower it to 18. As I see it, I have no problem with how the drinking age is now, but I feel like the United States would work better with the age being lowered to 18. There are many reason why the drinking age was raised to 21. First of all, “the goal of the change in drinking age from 18-21…

“It’s only one drink.” “I’m doing it so I can fit in, it’s not peer pressure.” “This is the only way for me to not worry about the problem.” “The only bad thing about drinking is the hangover that comes with it the next morning.” Thoughts similar to these often go through many people when they start drinking. Consequently, most don’t realize how bad the aftermath could be. When imagining what alcoholics are, most will automatically think of an adult abusing their own family or a person who…

Alcohol has been a core lifestyle in Australian’s life since 1788. Drinking alcohol has become a common cultural in this country. For some university student, binge drinking even became a part of their life. Drinking and late night pub leads to the problem of alcohol related violence (Hughes, Anderson, Morleo & Bellis, 2008). Research found that there was a positive and strong relationship between density of alcohol outlets and remained violence after controlling the alcohol consumption…

Underage Drinking is when anyone under the minimum legal drinking age of 21 drinks alcohol. In most cases people abuse alcohol around freshman year of high school. Some people even drink at an earlier age with the permission of their parents. Young people usually drink because an older brother or sister is doing it so the pressure to fit in attracts them to start drinking. Underage drinking is a huge problem and I think it’s even a bigger problem here in Las Vegas because our city drives on…

negative impacts caused by frequent alcohol on their academic performance, and the necessity to change their drinking habit. In the future, some studies may be conducted to find out whether reducing the drinking frequency or reducing the amount of alcohol consumed every time has less impact on memory, so that college students who are not able to quit drinking alcohol would correctly change their drinking…

availability. The community can help stop the progression of underage drinking, through advertising and education. Statistics Alcohol has become the leading cause of death in the United States. The statistics related to underage drinking are staggering. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4,300 deaths occur…

Should The Drinking Age Be Reduced To Eighteen? On July 17 1984, President Ronal Raegan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Bill. This bill banned the purchase and public possession of alcohol by individuals under the age of 21, however it did not ban consumption. The enforcement of this bill as law was handed over to all the federal states and since then each state has different laws regarding consumption, nevertheless purchase and possession of alcohol by people under 21 is still a crime.…

The model literature review two: Subjective Evaluation of Alcohol Consequences and Changes in Drinking Behavior is the subject for the evaluation and critiqued. In the research article, the authors do make opening statements that convince this reader that the topic is current, relevant and important. The authors introduce evidence that creates interest about the research question (Creswell, 2014). The central topics of subjective perceptions of consequences of alcohol consumption by college…

Along with underage alcohol abuse. Were Barrett Seaman covers in “How Bingeing became a new college sport”. Each scenario is treated differently because it involves different crowed of people. For example child abuse focuses on parents and underage drinking focuses on young adults. Why are both scenarios treated differently when looked at…

Do you think consuming enormous amount of alcohol is cool? Does drinking relax your mind? Does it take away all your problems? The answers to all of these questions is no. Getting drunk does not make you cool in my eyes it makes you irresponsible. It may relax your mind for a little while but after that your mind is back to being all over the place again. It doesn’t take your problems away because after you sober up you still have the same problems you had before. Getting drunk may make you feel…