Binge Drinking Promotion Analysis

In Henry Wechsler’s, “Getting Serious about Eradicating Binge Drinking”, he discusses the issue of binge drinking. Binge drinking is an extensive problem on college campuses. The majority of colleges merely focus on the student, rather than what encourages students to drink. Fraternities, sororities, and athletics are huge sources of the students on campus who drink. There are many approaches colleges can take to decrease the problem, and many colleges are already getting a head start. It is also important to not ignore how often colleges indirectly encourage students to drink (20).

People in the community or group who cannot offer professional help for binge drinkers, can participate and ‘doing their bit’ for the problem of binge drinking, by organising new letters or websites to provide information and where help can be found.

Since 1997, binge drinking has increased each year (Wechsler, Lee, & Kuo. 2010). Binge drinking is no stranger to San Jose State University as well as college campuses nationwide (Police Department, n.d.). Binge drinking has been on epidemic on college campuses and continues to grow over the course of time with alarming numbers of incidents that occur while under the influence. Since binge drinking is common on most college campuses, about 60% of students nationwide have stated that they have binge drank during their college years (College Drinking Fact Sheet, 2015).

“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.

The expectation of this curriculum is to reduce the prevalence of binge drinking for Cal State University, Long Beach (CSULB) students ages 17 to 22. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)( n.d.), binge drinking is defined as “A pattern of drinking that results in harm to one’s health, interpersonal relationships, or ability to work”. Further research into this issue has found that more than 1,000 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die from alcohol-related unintentional injuries every year (NIAAA, 2015). The goal of this curriculum is to prevent binge drinking and alcohol misuse by providing college students with feasible strategies to decrease the behavior. Education in the following areas of

For my research project I decided to look at binge drinking in teens. Binge drinking interested me because so many teenagers drink alcohol when they go out and don’t know what consequences it has on the body. Binge drinking is the consumption of an unreasonable amount of alcohol in a short period of time. I have chosen to research ‘What are the psychological and physiological effects of binge drinking in teens?’. I chose this question because I wanted to inform myself and other teens on the effects of binge drinking. The research methods used throughout my research were internet articles and a survey.

I believe that the objective was not met due to the fact that we did not present specific information of long term and short term effects within the PowerPoint to give to the participants, instead we just gave them information on the general effects of smoking. The knowledge present was not shared successfully enough for the participants to memorize the information given. If I was to repeat this health promotion again I would not change the objective itself but I would ensure that the PowerPoint specified the information exactly, such as having a slide dedicated to long term effects and short term effects separately. This would ensure that this objective was met

On a wet, dark, and snowy Sunday night an outsider wouldn't expect a Northeastern University campus bar to be crowded. In fact, most students can't even leave their dorms because there is too much snow. Yet a tiny pub, located barely off campus on Gainesboro Street, is packed wall to wall with students. A small community is drinking away their problems while discussing the probability of school being canceled. Many experts would describe this act as binge drinking, but any student would prefer to describe it as just a regular Sunday night.

Although both essays address the same topic concerning binge drinking, the information within each of the essays is contrast of each other. The difference regarding the publication of each of the essays portrays the audience that will view its justification. Those in need of valid statistics rely on the essay published in the medical journal, while those looking to be persuaded by the dangers of binge drinking turn to the essay within the educator’s journal.

“Getting Serious about Eradicating Binge Drinking,” a text written Henry Wechsler was first introduced to me in my English 102 class. In this Essay Wechsler brought to the reader’s attention that binge drinking was major problem on many college campuses. Wechsler aims to convince readers that binge drinking is a problem that needs to be stopped. Some of Wechsler’s statements made in this text were persuasive while others were opinions.

Alcohol is the most commonly used drug in Australia (The Australian Drug Foundation, 2014). The term binge drinking is defined as drinking heavily over a short period of time with the intention of becoming intoxicated (Druginfo.adf.org.au, 2009). Binge drinking is spreading across Australia and is now having a greater affect on adolescents. There are things that individuals, schools, families and governments can do in order to minimise binge drinking. The effects that alcohol has on the body depend on a range of thing such as how often you are drinking, the strength of the drink you drink and how much you drink (Dame, 2016). Alcohol has both short-term and long-term effects on the body. Some short-term effects include alcohol poisoning, blackouts,

In the text book, “Theories and Research of Personality” written by Daniel Cervone and Lawrence A. Pervin, the authors talk about the goals to research and they are referring to reliability, validity, and ethical behavior. With reliability, the author is referring to the “extent to which observations can be replicated and whether the measures of the research are dependable or stable” (Cervone, Pervin 43, 2013). Reliability is extremely important to have when conducting research because if the research conducted is not reliable then when trying to get research out to people, other psychologists will not believe what you are trying to get across and in the long term affecting ones career. Also Cervone and Pervin talk about validity which is,

I will conduct an interview with Red-eye a 21 year double major male student with brown hair and green eyes. Red-eye was asked a series of questions to see how it correlate to the findings in the article. Red-eye has been drinking snice his senior year of high school and when he started his first-year college he was not surprised at the amount of drinking going on when he first started drinking that was going on around him. he drinks at least four times out of the week he can drinks a minimum of 5 drinks a night which would be consider binge drinking. The term “binge drinking” has changed over decades back in the 1950 the term “binge” was describe as the consumption of a large amount of alcohol over several days or weeks. where today it is

In our program, we plan to use the Health Belief Model, Social Cognitive Theory, Diffusion of Innovation, Communication Theory, and Ecological Model. We aim to integrate all of these theories and its constructs to ensure that our program is tailored to accommodate the needs of our population. With the alterations of the theories and constructs, we aim to reduce the number of binge drinking and the harmful behaviors associated with binge drinking, specifically

Alcohol use continues to be a major concern among people within the age group 15 – 29 years old (WHO, 2011). Problematic drinking among this age group is highly prevalent, Ham, Bonin, and Hope (2007) reported 40.0% of college students experience “binge drinking”; a heavy drinking behavior that refers to consuming an average of more than two drinks per day, or more than 14 drinks per week; for men, and half of the stated frequency for women (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism [NIAAA], n.d). This age range between 18 and 25 years old fits the approximate ages of students in higher institutions, and to find the relationship between the contributing factor and alcohol use; and the mediator that supports the bridge between these two threats are the aims of this paper. In this study, social anxiety has been expected to play a priority role in engaging students in the consumption of alcohol.