Drinking culture

and maternal drinking”, “heavy drinking”, and “binge drinking” (Sacks, Gonzales, Bouchery, Tomedi, & Brewer, 2015). Excessive alcohol use has a crippling trickle up effect that starts with the individual and moves up through their friends and family, to the community, and eventually the nation as a whole. While the negative effects of excessive alcohol consumption…

Binge drinking is defined as “consuming large quantities of alcohol in a single session with the intention of getting drunk” (Youth Central, 2014). This usually means five or more standard drinks for men and four or more drinks for women. Standard drink in Australia is defined as containing 10 grams of pure alcohol, and for example one can of mid-strength beer, a 100ml glass of wine or a 30ml shot of spirits is one standard drink (National Health and Medical Research Council, 2015). Many young…

We Can Lay Down Our Lives, but Can’t Pick Up a Drink Drinking is a big part of our society. We drink on holidays. We have big bonfires. We have alcohol. The drinking age should be set to eighteen. Eighteen year olds are considered adults and are allowed to make adult decisions but can not legally drink at all. What sense does that make? Are twenty one year olds any more responsible than eighteen year olds? There are more news story about DWI with people of age, than those who are underage.…

Experimenting with Underage Drinking I believe that we can all agree that alcohol is the most common and popular drug in the many diverse cultures that are represented. This is a very severe problem because not only is it just an addiction, it is also a disease. The majority of teen aged kids have consumed more alcohol than adults aged 21, and I find this statistic to be very interesting and fearful at the same time. I too have participated in this dangerous act, and I also have many friends…

Alcohol is present in our society since ancient times. Alcohol consumption varies greatly from one culture to another, and it is easy to see the influence of alcohol in the socialization of many individuals. Alcohol has been an indispensable component of toasts, feasts, and celebrations since immemorial times. Must be set an age limit for the consumption of alcohol? Of course, and nobody denies the need of rules for that matter. The alcohol is a substance which has possible harmful health…

cognitively do such as drunk driving. My overall focus will be to give you the research that has been conducted around the effects of how alcohol affects the adolescent brain long-term, and short term. Without critically thinking about the issue of teen drinking we should be able to assume the short-term effects such as poor decision-making, and overall loss of cognitive functions. The cornerstone of my research will relate to the long term effects that the alcohol has on the adolescent brain…

admitted we were powerless over alcohol- that our lives had become unmanageable.” (Alcoholics Anonymous) My friend moved to Nashville about a year ago, and through a series of unfortunate events involving love and loss, she began a downhill spiral of drinking through her pain in hopes to forget events of her past. When I asked about her coping mechanisms she mentioned a recent visit to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. I asked if she would mind if I joined her to a meeting for research. I wanted…

The MLDA (minimum legal drinking age) has been a topic that has been debated for quite some time now and probably will continue to be debated in future years. Some people think the drinking age should be lowered while others think it should remain at twenty-one years old. At the age of eighteen when an adolescent legally becomes an adult, and with this comes many responsibilities such as enlisting in the military and the privilege to serve on a jury. Reasons like these are why people think one…

our own campus, I learned that a lot of underage drinking happened. Many students had describe their plans to “pre-turn up” before the concert and then to continue with their partying afterwards. Students often list their plans for the weekend on social media encouraging others to join in and to bring their own drink, as they plan to get blackout drunk. Drinking games, off campus parties and binge drinking are a large part of the campus party culture. They happen, we know they happen and expect…

Cultural regulations, especially in a culture driven country, such as China, can determine whether or not Anheuser Busch succeeds in the industry. In the Chinese culture, drinking alcohol was considered “a man’s drink because of the strength of the alcohol” (Nelson 2016) because of alcohol being mainly considered a man’s drink, beer companies such as Anheuser…