(Binge drinking can be harmful to U.S. college students in many ways. For instance, it can be harmful physically, by causing health problems.) The Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention states that some of the short-term health risks caused by binge drinking are injuries, alcohol poisoning, car accidents, and many more. According to the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism “599,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 receive unintentional injuries while under the influence of alcohol.” However, these are just some of the short-term consequences of binge drinking. In addition, the NIAAA states that drinking too much over a long period of time, or just drinking a lot in one night may have severe effects on your body. Many
I agree with the author's point of view in the article “The Danger Lurking in Just One Drink”, by Jeannie Ralston. She provides many statistics that surround teenage binge drinking and how it is negative and dangerous to teenagers. In the beginning, the article starts off with a short story about a girl from Massachusetts, named Taylor Meyer, who was too drunk to find her way home and ended up drowning in a swampy area in the woods. “Your brain on alcohol becomes a dumber, more unpredictable version of itself and the consequences can be catastrophic” (Ralston, p.7). If Taylor had not drank that night she would have been able to find her way home safely and unharmed.
Alcoholism is a brain disease and the earlier people start drinking, the worse the effects on the brain. A reason not to lower the drinking age is the reoccurance of binge drinking. Binge drinking, especially at a young age, can cause high blood pressure, obesity, and poor brain and body growth. Binge drinking also can cause death from heart attacks and alcohol poisoning.
Journal 5 The author, Sabrina Erdely, begins the article by expressing all of the ways college students spend their time on weekends, as well as most weeknights. All of the activities she listed had one thing in common: alcohol. Erdely then goes into detail describing just how important getting drunk on the weekends is to students. “The challenge to drink to the very limits of one’s endurance has become a celebrated staple of college life. In one of the most extreme reports on college drinking thus far, a 1997 Harvard School of Public Health study found that 43 percent of college students admitted to binge drinking in the proceeding two weeks.
Alcoholism is a physical and psychological disorder of the brain that involves the chronic and exorbitant consumption of alcoholic beverages. The consumption can be in response to stressful situations, at overwhelming amounts of social activities, and even in the comfort of one's own home. Alcoholism can trigger other psychological disorders such as depression and schizophrenia, and it also has other negative consequences such as kidney failure, heart defects, and even death. An example of alcoholism in a piece of literature is Rex Walls from The Glass Castle. His actions throughout the novel have extremely detrimental consequences for his wife, children, and himself.
Should College Allow Drinking in Campus? In April 2002 The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism(NIAAA) published a report, updated in 2005, that suggests a strong relationship between alcohol and other drug abuse and variety of negative consequences of students who used alcohol and drug. The report estimates that each year 1,700 college students die from alcohol-related unintentional injuries, including motor vehicle crashes. In addition, it further estimates that alcohol is involved in 599,000 unintentional injuries, 696,000 assaults, and 79,000 cases of sexual assault and acquaintance rape among college students. According to a number of national surveys, about 40% of college and university students engage in heavy episodic
Another example of a danger to their fellow students is by sexually assaulting their female companions. They also get into fights with other young undergraduates. She states that 1000 on average die a year from alcohol-related traffic
One major thing is Alcohol poisoning from a hard night of drinking can cause you to overdose on alcohol and basically die.. Binge drinkers are one of the majorities that are affected from alcohol poisoning. Binge drinkers take in an excessive amount of alcohol in a short period of time and then maybe wait for a month and do it again in one night. Excessive drinking from teens can suffer from blackouts and cause them to forget things very easily. Teens that do regularly drink hardcore are shown to have bad testing scores in school and perform bad in school in general.
“Health and Behavioral Consequences of Binge Drinking in College” and “Too Many Colleges Are Still in Denial about Alcohol Abuse” by Henry Wechsler, Charles Deutsch, and George Dowdall discuss the same topic: binge drinking in college. Although both of the writings have the topic in common, they are both written differently. “Health and Behavioral Consequences of Binge Drinking in College” is a scientific study on how many students are binge drinkers in college and what consequences rise from that while “Too Many Colleges Are Still in Denial about Alcohol Abuse” is a persuasive essay about what actions need to be taken in order to reduce the amount of binge drinkers in college. Even though essays serve different writing styles, they both deliver
There is a high possibility that this is a result of the national drinking limit being so high. Because this makes it more attractive to drink and almost rebel against the law in a certain sense. There are many negative effects to binge drinking, both long term and short-term effects. Binge drinkers tended to score higher on measures of depression and anxiety and reported lower positive mood than non-drinkers. Clearly these effects are not going to be positive.
Individual students were noted to be missing classes, failing classes, taking longer to graduate, and some were dropping out of school all together. In addition there was an increase in campus reported crime rates including physical and sexual assaults. There have been numerous reported deaths due to over doses which include alcohol consumption. In 2013 it was reported that over fifty percent of students reported were drinking on campus and over thirty percent reported they were engaging in binge drinking (College Drinking Statistics). Binge drinking is defined as when an individual consumes five or more drinks during one occasion and the reported blood alcohol level is reported above a .08.
Alcohol is proven to cause significant brain damage as well as organ damage. After the age of 21, according to what doctors, organizations and scientific investigations
In Beth McMurtrie’s article “Why Colleges Haven’t Stopped Binge Drinking”, colleges have been and are continuing to drop the ball when it comes to stopping binge drinking by college students. McMurtrie begins the article by explaining the impact that binge drinking has on the lives of students involved. Some colleges are beginning to overlook the problem completely. It appears that the whole problem has been purposely overlooked in many instances for many different reasons. There are those out there that believe that binge drinking and college life go hand in hand and that these that partake of such will get it under control when they are ready.
Health issues for drinking can be a serious and damageable for you. Alcohol is like a poison that you are drinking. If drinking too much it might cause effects on your body including your heart or liver. Problems managing diabetes, high blood pressure and other conditions. The drinking causes many problems you must go the hospital.
Responsibility is one of the keywords to remember when consuming alcohol. Anything could happen when you 're under the influence, death, rape, and many more life-altering occurrences. One huge potential life-altering thing that could happen to you is brain damage. Drinking at a younger age increases the risk of brain damage. This is the only potentially bad risk that comes with drinking, but if consumed responsibly it will be okay
So they continously do the activity until such time that they realize that it has become an addiction without realizing that it is detrimental in their health. The misuse of alcohol does not only affect the concerned teenager but it also breaks relationship as wekk as the society in general in terms of violence and crime, accidents and drink-driving. To explore more on this issue, a studys conducted in Harvard School of Public Healthshows that students who are engaged in alcohol drinking activities tend to be are displaying negative behaviors and therefore reveiving sanctions by the authorities (Wechsler et al.