When most of the students go to the party, they end up drinking over their limit. Even though the students had enough and face hard time on drinking anymore, and some who do not want to drink, they end up grabbing the cup of alcohol with their friends and starts to drink again because their friends forces them or they feel some kind of pressure from their friends to take shots with them. Here is the source from the article, “Peer pressure is a huge factor of binge drinking” (Margaret Stunn). It is an immature thought but most of young students tend to think that people who can consume a lot of alcohol are cooler because they can get more intensions from other students. Also
Should the Legal Drinking Age be Lowered? Alcohol has taken the lives of many young adults and in order to stop this chain reaction from occurring once again with new generations there needs to be a change. Young adults under 21 drink now because it is illegal and it is what causes them to drink irresponsibly and causes them to do many regrettable things, knowing that they are going against authority. On college campuses nationwide students are currently drinking illegally while under the age of 21 and if the drinking age was changed the whole aspect of drinking would be looked at differently. Lowering the drinking age, I feel would be the best solution to solving the underground drinking problem, it would allow for drinking to be more “open.” Having the drinking age at 21 allows for there to me more difficulty in keeping track of the kids who use it because they do it secretly and tend to abuse it more.
The drinking age isn't meant to be a big deal, but the first couple years of lowering the drinking age could cause many students to be reckless. There are many responsibilities that come along with drinking at a low age, most importantly drinking and driving. Lowering the age will reduce all such problems, but at first will seem extremely hectic. Lowering the current drinking age of 21-and-over will allow young Americans, most of who are perfectly capable of drinking responsibly; to no longer drink in private or in short amounts of time, thus alleviating potentially dangerous conditions. Drinking privately is extremely unsafe and when kids are in a situation they can't handle, they can then ask for help.
This sends a conflicting message to the young person, that drinking is permissible at an earlier age than 21. Scientists conclude that early drinking by adolescents increases the lifetime likelihood of alcohol dependence, and that overall drinking levels in a society are directly linked to drinking problems (NIAA p. 2). The peers of an individual can also have a strong influence upon drinking habits. A person is likely to behave according to their friends’ standards in order fit in and be accepted. If peers encourage others to drink alcohol underage, often teens will drink to feel more accepted by their peers.
Releasing stress in a sexual manner can also make them forget about all the stressful things such as, study for a huge test they have coming up or not stressing over if they will pass a certain class. Another cause of hooking-up is because of drinking too much. People lose control of their bodies when they are drunk. Alcohol causes the body’s systems to slow down making it harder to control yourself. In the article, “What Alcohol Really Does to Your Sex Life”, written by Petra Zebroff, she
As a result, the problem of alcohol abuse and drinking deaths become graver among college students. Aside from lack of education, Mindy Sink seems to neglect the problem of peer pressure in her article. The influence of peer pressure is strong especially when people are still in their adolescence. Influences of peers may worsen the problem of alcohol abuse. Erik Erikson is a psychoanalyst whose eight developmental stages are very famous.
These as well as being able to pull all-nighters, and drink an in ornament amount of alcohol with little side effect are all reasons this drug appeals to college students. “I didn’t feel like I was becoming smarter or even like I was thinking more clearly. I just felt more directed and less distracted by rogue thoughts, less day-dreamy, (3)” said a Joshua Foer, a journalist who, after consulting many physicians, decided to try Adderall for himself. Since many students assert that they use Adderall only for studying for large tests and completing important assignments, the risk of dependency is high. “I don’t think I’m addicted.
The objective is to alert or reiterate, to the entire university student population, the risks associated with binge drinking, and the hope is that students will be oriented toward making choices related to their optimal health and wellbeing and avoid binge drinking. For many students, relaxing after a difficult week of study and research is complemented by drugs and alcohol, and sometimes way too much of either or both. Evidence of imbibing plentifully can be witnessed on campus after wild nights, reminders of excess that lead binge-drinkers to unhealthy mornings and possibly to poor exam or paper results. The “What’s Your Cap?” initiative has presented a fun stress relief program and showed that other options to heavy drinking are available for those looking to let loose and shake off some of the worry. The severity of binge drinking is absolutely real, hangovers are just the tip of the iceberg as far as problems go; the short-term effects, at worst, will be physical and non-permanent.
Sam Duyck Mr. McWaters English 101 11:00 September 18, 2011 Much of the article, “Getting Serious about Eradicating Binge Drinking,” by author Henry Wechsler has a biased view on drinking and the way people drink in college. This piece of work gives many problems and solutions to binge drinking on a college campus. College is not full of binge drinkers or people who wreak havoc across campus. Binge drinking is a bad thing when over used or not controlled. Colleges and people all over the country are doing things to slow down binge drinking but it will never be eradicated in teens and young adults.
However, the fact that college students take the medication to help them focus and pull all-nighters is an unethical attempt to hide laziness. Unfortunately the drug is readily available from friends who have a legitimate prescription. Students that abuse this medication should consider that some students with under-developed brains really it to stimulate the dopamine part of their brain. In most competitive college majors, some students perceive that there is no way they can keep up with the ambitious nature of other classmates. They turn to ADHD medication to help them write more, remember more material, and study for a longer period of time, giving them the advantage over their medication -free classmates.