Binge drinking

Second, the minimum drinking age of 21 reduces deaths associated with alcohol. “Underage drinking is a leading contributor to death from injuries, which are the main cause of death for people under age 21” (“Underage Drinking” National Institutes of Health). “Over 300,000 deaths have been prevented as a result of reductions in alcohol-impaired driving, more than the reduction attributed to increases in the use of safety belts, airbags, motorcycle, and bicycle helmets combined” (“Rebecca…

"The Illusion of College Drinking ." Psychology Today 16 Oct 2003. web. This popular source contrasts with the others indicating that irresponsible college drinking is a misconception. This article doesn’t state that college drinking does not occur but that the image of college students being “drunkards” is mostly myth. With utilization of a study from University of North Carolina…

The Drinking Age Should Not Be Lowered The legal drinking age should not be lowered as it has been proven it will have negative effects on the individual and society. The legal drinking age started at 21 years old in the 1930’s. During the Vietnam War era the legal drinking age was lowered to 18 to accommodate the soldiers that were in the War. This changed when Ronald Regan proposed the Uniform Drinking Age Act in 1984. This made it a requirement for all states to return the drinking age…

information from a variety of sources, this was done by me, Tyla-may and Kataya. I was responsible for using this information we gathered to design and product the PowerPoint, in addition to this I was also in charge of finding a definition of binge drinking which was obtained from the NHS website. Kataya had the role of finding the information and use it to design and create the games we were going to use in our health promotion; this information was obtained from a website called…

years, one of the common topics of discussion is the drinking age. Some think the drinking age should be lowered, while a large handful of people think that the drinking age should remain the same. In this paper you will learn the pros and cons of lowering the drinking age. For every pro for lowering the drinking age, there is a con. “When the drinking age became eighteen, however, college drinking became legal and open” (Poe 17). When the drinking age was eighteen, nobody tried to hide it.…

taking by regularly binge drinking. I also believe that talking to the people around him, and creating a positive support system will also help him stay on track. As a college student, I see many people who struggle with peer pressure, and those who binge drink in order to “fit in.” JD is a 23-year-old male. He is currently unemployed because of health problems, that he was unwilling to share with me, that have progressed into seizures. He hopes that cutting back on drinking may lead to…

them. By lowering the legal drinking age to eighteen this would lower the number of underage drinkers. If the age were to be lowered there would actually be fewer minors going on binge drinking sprees.This can help save lives. However, by the drinking age being at twenty-one years old, it has been useless. More benefits would appear if the…

Binge drinking in early ages and college years creates problems in individual’s quality of life. Learning about the possible causes, education about the psychological and physical problems which are linked with binge drinking, and prevention methods are the key options to reduce binge drinking rates among college students and children. In order to address binge drinking and its consequences we will discuss the background information, intervention methods and our decision process of the preparing…

using SASSI-3 with young adult clients presenting problem drinking on a college campus. Alcohol consumption is a social norm to college students. Unfortunately, the amount of college students that binge drink is extremely high, which shows negative effects of absenteeism, injury, poor grades, unwanted sexual behaviors, etc. (Laux, Salyers, & Kotova, 2005) In a two week time frame, two in five students admitted to binge drinking. Binge drinking is defined as four or more drinks in a row for…

examine how specific patterns of disordered eating are related to alcohol use and related problems and the influence of racial group membership and Big Five personality traits on the co-occurence of these behaviors. The researcher hypothesized that binge drinking and alcohol-related problems would be significantly associated with global eating pathology, that high neuroticism and openness and low conscientiousness and agreeableness…