Beat the Binge

According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Many young people are facing the consequences of excessive drinking, at a too early age. Because of this issue, underage drinking is a leading public health problem. Each year, approximately 5,000 young people under the age of 21 die as a result of underage drinking including about 1,900 deaths from motor vehicle crashes, 1,600 as a result of homicides, 300 from suicide, as well as hundreds from other injuries such as falls, burns, and drownings (1–5).

The biggest problem with this alcohol abuse is the way the kids consume it. Binge drinking is the biggest worry with this high alcohol consumption. Binge drinking is consuming high quantities of alcohol in a short period of time. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol Consumption 4 out of 5 college students drink alcohol, about half of those who do engage in binge drinking. There are many bad results that happen when students do consume alcohol at such a high rate on their own body and those around them. Not only do these students decrease their inhibitions, but their ability to make smart decisions also decreases quite a bit. Some of the many problems these students face is death, assault, sexual abuse, self-injuries, health problems and academic problems.

These drinking habits need to stop, STOP so they will be safe, STOP so that they are not developing lifelong health issues and making a past on their social media accounts, because these days it’s too hard to hide the past on the social media. Drinking at young ages affects multiple aspects of the youth. need to educate the youth about the negative impacts because it only takes one night to wreck a life time.

“According to the CDC, about 90% of all teen alcohol consumption occurs in the form of Binge Drinking, which experts say peaks at the age of nineteen.” (qtd by Listfield). Binge Drinking is the consumption of excessive amounts of alcohol in a short period of time. The author, Emily Listfield, defines that the standard alcohol consumption over a two hour period is considered to be four beers for women and five beers for men. This has become a great distraction for college students nationwide and a major dilemma on college campuses. Nearly two hundred thousand students visit emergency rooms each year due to the abuse of alcohol, and more than one thousand seven hundred students die. In the article “ The Underage Drinking Epidemic”, Listfield identifies the problems that underage drinking can cause, the dangers that could happen, and four solutions on what parents can do to keep their kids from binge drinking.

Alcohol misuse in Australia society is a community issue that can be addressed successfully within a health promotion framework. It is important that strategies

I strongly agree with your comment Megan. It is important for communities and Schools to provide their teens and students with the dangers of binge drinking. In fact, all my way through middle school and high school, my classmates and I were not introduce to the dangers of binge drinking. Creating programs, such as the ones they have for drugs, will help teens see the great dangers there exist when they binge drink.

Underage alcohol drinking can have devastating effects on teenagers. It can affect teens' grades, health and many other things as well. The reasons why teenagers consume alcohol are pretty clear. What aren’t clear are the solutions to eliminating, or at least reducing the number of underage drinkers. It is vital that we do something to at least suppress this problem. By taking action, we can greatly reduce the number of underage drinkers and it could also save not only their lives, but also someone else's life as well. Underage drinking can cause many health problems as well as educational problems in a teen’s life; therefore our country needs to decrease the number of underage drinkers by increasing both the price of alcohol as well as the legal drinking age.

In order to prevent an entire generation from becoming raging alcoholics, alcohol consumption risks should be taught by schools or parents.

Being a very big problem to the society and government at large, underage drinking may not be totally eradicated but can be reduced to manageable levels. To do this, a collective approach has to be used in implementing the various recommended prevention measures. The best approach towards reducing adolescent drinking is through numerous strategies which include school-based strategies, family, and community as well as extracurricular strategies (Komro and Toomey 3).

     Some alternatives to this high and strict minimum drinking age could be to give all students a state funded alcohol awareness program while in high school. If students are taught about the risks and dangers of excessive drinking, they will be more likely to refrain from doing it. Nowadays, the courses concerning alcohol awareness are more

Recent studies show that teaching prevention about binge drinking are more effective if they have an “harm reduction” approach, instead of focus in the legal consequences of binge drinking. (Difluvio, Linowski,Mazziotti & Puleo, 2010) Difulvio et al suggests that interventions based on cognitive-behavioral skill training and motivational enhancement approaches are effective in reducing risk behaviors. The PRECEDE-PROCEDE were used as health-teaching model due it similarity with the nurse process (Allender, Rector &Warner, 2014 p.371). A study conducted by Kelsey Anderson et al (2015) about educational program and binge drinking was used as reference for the elaboration and PRECEDE-PROCEDE scheme, finding on the teaching portion of this

Communities have noticed problems with juvenile drinking and driving and started The Saving Lives Project, which was planned to reduce alcohol impaired driving and related problems (Holder 2). This development uses media and education to get the knowledge out about the risk of drinking. The communities that are a part of this project have shown a 40 percent decrease in alcohol related crashes (Holder 2). The project has been shown that older teen’s ages sixteen to nineteen are now less likely to drink and drive after learning about the risks in alcohol classes. Colleges that have set a week to focus on education and prevention of alcohol have shown a five-fold increase (Gonzalez 4).

Youth should be well educated about consumption of alcohol well before middle school. By the time students reach middle school they are already exposed to alcohol. D.A.R.E, the program that teaches children about alcohol and its effects, should be taught in

A large percentage of people who binge drink often end up breaking the laws in some way due to alcohol and the way a person thinks and behaves. They soon forget what’s right and wrong and the way they behave is different due to them becoming more aggressive and deuterated, they are more likely to start a fight or commit a crime when they are drunk. Another reason why heath promotions are important because it can teach people who already binge drink about the dangers of becoming an alcoholic. Statistics show that in the UK today, one in thirteen adults are alcoholics and are dependent on alcohol. Most of these alcoholics have become addicted due to binged drinking from a young age this is where the high statistics come from in the 18-25 age group. Even though alcohol is the second drug to kill the most people after cigarettes there I still such a high percentage of deaths due to alcohol. By educated the people that are most worthwhile will mean that there will get more from the health campaign and will be educated upon the different effects binge drinking can have. Therefore, by making my focus being towards 18-25 year olds these effects that binge drinking can have will be taken more seriously and they can take more action straight away to stop them being affected by these

Teenage binge drinking (consumption of five or more alcohol drinks in a row) has grown to be a serious problem in the United States. A report in 2009 from the Surgeon General’s office show alcohol consumption by teens start as early as 11 years of age for boys and 13 years of age for girls (Grant & Dawson, 1997). In the youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Report (2007), data results showed that over three million teenagers in grades 6 through 12 are alcoholics, and several million teens have serious health issues due to drinking. Further research conducted by the Harvard School of Public health (2006) show a direct correlation of automobile accidents, alcohol poisoning, poor academic performance. violence and