Binge eating

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism confirms that alcohol consumption in any amount has damaging effects on the brain and the body. The institute also confirms that the damaging effects can persist long after an alcoholic achieves sobriety. What is obvious is that people who consistently engage in heavy drinking are at a far greater risk of permanently damaging their bodies and their minds. The long-term effects of alcohol abuse also reach farther than the body and the mind,…

drink before 21, but 11% of people ages 12 to 20 are responsible for drinking alcohol and 90% of this is in the form of binge drinking (Cdc.gov, 2016). While the number of those drinking alcohol may not seem overwhelming, the journal, Nursing Standard, states that the number of adolescents that are drinking are actually drinking larger quantities of alcohol in the form of binge drinking (Davies, 2012, p.43). There are many problems associated with drinking under age and drinking too much, and…

To many individuals Alcohol is simply a drink, however it's one thing something that, it is a drug. Adolescents develop drinking issues for many reasons - because they're bored, because of peer pressure, because there is nothing else to do. A report last year by the National Drug analysis Institute found girls aged fourteen to seventeen were worse abusers of alcohol than eighteen to twenty four year recent men. The media portrays as Adolescents are drinking to excess and this can be, by many,…

Injunctive norms and identification to peers of similar status (reference groups) relate when it comes to college drinking. A study done by Neighbors, LaBrie, Hummer, Lewis, Lee, Desai & Larimer (2010) focused on alcohol consumption, perceived drinking norms, and identification to reference groups. Drinks per week was used as a variable in these studies. This was operationally defined by using the mean of the modified Daily Drinking Questionnaire. Perceived descriptive norms were measured using…

Denial is one of the biggest obstacles to getting help for alcohol abuse and alcoholism. The desire to drink is so strong that the mind finds many ways to rationalize drinking, even when the consequences are obvious. By keeping you from looking honestly at your behavior and its negative effects, denial also exacerbates alcohol-related problems with work, finances, and relationships. If you have a drinking problem, you may deny it by, drastically underestimating how much you drink, downplaying…

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…

In a commencement speech to Kenyon graduates, David Foster Wallace metaphorically refers to our routine daily lives as water. If this holds any truth, then the metaphorical beverage equivalent with college is alcohol. Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a 40 year ongoing study at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor that surveys approximately 50,000 students a year. MTF reports that 81% of college students, and 86% of young adults from 19 to 28 years old have tried alcohol and alcohol usage has been…

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 women and for men, five or more. It is “estimated that nearly one third…

Binge drinking, defined as "a pattern of drinking alcohol that brings blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to 0.08 gram-percent or above" (USDHHS, 2007, p. 2), described as one of the leading causes of alcohol related incidents on college campuses. This kind…

Alcoholism is a known problem in society; it’s defined as “a chronic disease including uncontrolled drinking and preoccupation with alcohol.” It’s also known as alcohol dependence, and is a very common disease that can last for years or last a lifetime. In the article Substance Abuse and Addiction- Topic Overview, it shows that alcoholism has a large effect on ones everyday life. This is shown much throughout the novel For One More Day by Mitch Albom, when the main character Charley or “Chick”…