Drinking establishments

dad went through many different stages while he was drinking. Alcohol reduces our ability to think straight," says Professor McMurran, a psychologist at the University of Nottingham. "It narrows our focus of attention and gives us tunnel vision. 
"If someone provokes us while we 're drunk, we don 't take other factors into account, such as the consequences of rising to the bait.
The way we process information is affected when we 've been drinking too. We 're more likely to misinterpret other…

abused, but maybe lowering the legal drinking age will help with that too! If people are uneducated about alcohol when they reach the legal drinking age, wouldn’t worse effects happen because they are unsure of the content and how it makes the mind and feel? What about drinking and driving? When people are introduced to alcohol at twenty-one, hopefully people are educated enough to not drink and drive, but it’s still an issue today! Would decreasing the drinking age lower the percentage of…

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…

healthier than tap water. The question stands though; is bottled water somewhat healthier than tap water? Is buying bottled water worth the extra money? Is drinking tap water any worse than bottled water? Is filtering tap water worth the extra money and time rather than just drinking right out of the tap? What are the long term effects of drinking both bottled water and…

“Binge drinking is characteristic of a large proportion of college students… Binge drinking is associated with a drinking style that involved frequent consumption of large quantities of alcohol, drunkenness, drinking to get drunk, and perception of the appropriateness of heavy drinking in social situations” (p.2929). This explanation of binge drinking supports findings in the 2010 Monitoring the Future report (2010) which states that 65% of full-time college students reported drinking in the…

Binge Drinking: Main Cause of Death in U.S. Binge drinking spiked in the mid-to-late 90s (“Making Sense of the Stats on Binge Drinking”), in 2006 alone it cost the United States $223.5 billion (“Fact Sheets - Binge Drinking”). Some people think binge drinking should be defined as anyone who is overly intoxicated which leads to harmful or destructive behaviors (Hanson). Binge drinking among men is more common than among women (“Fact Sheets - Binge Drinking”), but statistics show 23,000 deaths of…

such as long-term or short-term comes from binge drinking. Drinking high doses of alcohol can become poisonous to the body. This action may sometimes result in death from alcohol poisoning. Drinking in this form is highly dangerous, because the blood levels of the human body reach a high peak in a short amount of time (Fundukian & Wilson 138). The short-term health problems occurring from binge drinking are, “A single episode of binge drinking can result in loss of coordination and impaired…

this unmet need to get to the core cause on why the drinker has resorted to alcohol to cope with their problems. Originally the subject does not recognize, nor do they acknowledge reasons behind their drinking, but they are fully aware of the effects that their bodies will undergo throughout their drinking process. The goal of the psychologist is to help the subject see what they do not see, and realize that they do not need alcohol to solve their problems. This would result in the subject being…

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…

For some people it is not a choice, it 's a must. For example, in Mexico the drinking water can be highly polluted. That is why, when visiting Mexico, they warn people not to drink out of the faucet. This is due to the fact that, in some parts the water is polluted and according to the website Country Facts, in the article Water Pollution…