College Binge Drinking College is a time of discovery and learning. It is a time when students develop new ideas and form new habits. One of these habits is drinking binge drinking. College students in fact drink more than their peers who are not in college (Wechsler 987). Problems arising from college drinking have risen proportionally by 7% since 1998 (Hingson 15).
Many people started in high school because its what most of their friends and older peers would do but they do not keep drinking because of this. After a person starts to drink they usually enjoy it, which is why they continue to keep binge drinking. It can make things more fun and it can allow someone to be any person they want to be. Not everyone who drinks does it to follow the bandwagon. Fraternities and Sororities do hold a large part in drinking on campus but that is not what greek life is all about.
According to Lini Kadaba’s article, Colleges Hitting the Bottle Binge Drinking Remains High, but Initiatives at Area Schools Raising Awareness, “College binge drinking is remaining in colleges due to the intractable problems that contribute to 1,700 student deaths, 599,000 injuries, and 97,000 cases of sexual assault, or date rapes.” (24). For college students, health issues may not seem relevant, or carry that much weight; after all, many young adults believe they’re invincible. Binge drinking affects the entire college community, not just those who partake in drinking. To change this culture, colleges need help from parents, the Greeks, and the alumni. To begin, parents are usually the last to know that their children are influenced by
There are far too many examples of how drinking among college fraternities and sororities have led to severe consequences. Heavy consumption of alcohol has been the cause of an increased number of assaults and unintentional injuries on campuses across the United States. College students who binge or are excessive drinkers are able to avoid being labeled an alcoholic because it’s socially acceptable in college to drink and drink often. Students that consider this concept should be aware. The distinction is that “when drinking begins to interfere with any aspect of a person’s life it’s considered alcohol abuse.
If we are lowering the age of drinking to 18 then many high school student will be freely start drinking and go to the club and spend the money. They have not started to earn, so they are going to spend the money of their parents. In the USA children after age 18 should start to earn by themselves, so if they spend the money in the alcohol then their parents are not going to support them. In the contrast, opposing people say that how can lowering the age affect the education. The children of the other country are not having any problem with the education.
Many alcohol advertisements are placed in different types of media that are popular among adolescent.” They spend billions of dollars in developing an advertisement to capture the publics’ eye, especially the young adolescents. The alcohol industry target a specific group mainly teenagers, but they don’t realize is that all of the colorful effects, the music, and the atmosphere of fun and excitement makes the teenagers want to take a shot or two. At John Hopkins University made a estimate, “the likely effects of several alcohol policies on youth drinking behavior in the U.S. population concluded that a complete ban on alcohol advertising would be the most effective, resulting in 7,609 fewer deaths from harmful drinking and a 16.4% drop in alcohol-related life-years lost.” Banning alcohol commercials can affect the life of young adolescents and adults by not having the influence or the temptation in front of you will decrease the amount of drinking in teens. Commercials have a lot of power over a person’s judgment persuading them to act like different
Trust me, I know plenty of teenagers that go to college parties and get wasted (and one of my friends got pregnant at this kind of party) because there wasn't anywhere else to go! And that may sound stupid, but honestly, restaurants, friends' houses, and the movies are basically the only places we have to go. I waste so much money going to the movies because I'm bored! I play sports AND work so I'm not "lazy." I have Oak Hollow Mall memorized, and have been to almost every restaurant around the High Point-Greensboro-Winston area.
With this frame of mindset, it’s extremely important for the federal government to uphold and keep the drinking age at a constant. As teenagers mature into young adults, peer pressure and social influences become factors that may contribute towards irresponsible decisions. Since 1984, the federal drinking age was raised to 21, which tremendously benefited teens and young adults in the United States (Kirszner, Mandell 458). Drinking is among the greatest misleading decisions made among individuals at parties, especially in college, so it’s always necessary to maintain responsibilities. Currently, college students mainly drink due to the convenience of accessibility to obtain substances from older acquaintances or friends who also enjoy having a good time.
An article printed in the Los Angeles times, “At 18, is it time for a drink?” presents the fact that the majority of serious alcohol-related accidents on college campuses happen when young people are hiding their drinking in their rooms (Gordon). Lowering the drinking age would allow these students the freedom to drink and make it so they do not have to hide the fact that they are drinking alcohol. These students would drink amongst their friends where they could receive help if they happen to drink too much. Young people would
Parent's have their influence on teens to a great extent and the result of this bad influence is alcoholic teens following the principle, like parents, like children.In recent years it's known that people who have/had alcoholic parents are more likely to develop the diorder themselves. Most teens try alcohol for the first time at home and that is where the parents can be held responsible. Instead of the parents influence their children to drink alcohol, they should talk and make it clear to their adolescents that drinking impairs coordination and decision making abilities. If more time was spent with adolescents by their parents and it wasn't any alcohol involved their would be less deaths and car