1. Thesis
“How responsible are people for the decisions they make when drunk?” (372) “What are some of the ways that people downplay the consequences of heavy drinking, and when is that a problem?” (372)
2. Support for Thesis
“While I had fun last night, I have to now deal with the fact that I hooked up with my friends little sister and must deal with the situation as it is.”(373) When a person is out partying the next day comes with the consequences of having to fix any damage made while intoxicated. A hangover is one way to remind a person of what they did the night before. “Recent empirical studies have demonstrated that young alcohol abusers may not “learn their lesson” from a negative experience with alcohol intoxication.” (373) When
Going start to big leagues of party schools according to the counseling director at the University of Alabama Lee Keyes, “’Today it’s [alcohol consumption] aimed at the obliteration of consciousness.’” (68). Alcohol consumption in and of itself does not contribute Marano’s argument, but the tendency of 24 percent intending to binge-drink into oblivion with no concern of ones actions is what gives her justification (68). She is building up to the point that this generations actions are reckless, but even so these actions are not new just socially acceptable. There is no understand from the authors point of view that in the individuals she is referring, the offenses are reoccurring, nothing is unexpected. These have been labelled college experiences for decades or
Alcoholism is one of the most intractable and pervasive psychological disorders known. Though the negative health consequences of alcohol are widely understood, and, if anything, the social consequences of alcoholism are even more widely acknowledged, it seems that no matter what steps are taken by public health officials or private organizations, no strategy can ever be fully developed for eradicating alcoholism. There are a number of reasons why this is true. This paper will explore some of the social and medical problems created by alcohol, but in it I will also consider the role of alcohol in my personal life and the way I have seen the disease play out in the lives of people around me. The paper will also examine the social and political responses to the problem of alcoholism and attempt to determine where productive approaches have been taken and areas where mistakes have been made. Before discussing such wide-ranging questions, it is important to understand what alcoholism is and how it is manifested.
Imagine this. It’s the weekend, you have nothing planned but to just sit at home and watch T.V. Your sister gets invited to a party but her friend invited her to spend the night, your parents don’t really like the party idea at all but allows her to go stay the night at her friends instead. Your sister goes to the party instead. Just imagine waking up in the middle of the night to your parents crying, hearing your mom cry and yell. You run downstairs and find out that your sister has been in a car accident and was also drinking and driving. Your sister, who was only eighteen is pronounced dead. She had her whole life ahead of her, but it's ruined all because she went to the party, got drunk, and decided it was okay to drive. How would you
Every teenager loves that moment when we are on the open road, sitting right behind the wheel, joining the millions of adults that drive everyday. That feeling of nervousness and excitement is the sense of freedom and the first major step into adulthood. But then that feeling is quickly ended by dad yelling “speed up they’re going to hit you.” That is the beginning of the driving process.
Many students in college throughout the country participate in drinking for many different reasons. People drink for sports events, social purposes, or simply for a party. Binge drinking is an important issue that requires more attention from students, parents, and the media. Drinking can be acceptable at the correct age and if it is not abused. Many people binge drink for a number of reasons. Alcohol can be often viewed as “liquid confidence”. People tend to partake in the activity to lower social anxiety unfortunately not realizing the physical and emotional effects that may come along. There are many different alternatives that can be taken in place of or to help the use of consuming alcohol. Drinking alcohol can be illegal if underage and taken to a further extent that shouldn’t be reached. There have been many instances where people have been extremely injured or even died due to the use of binge drinking and it needs to be taken more seriously let alone controlled.
Do you know what humans, plants, and fish all have in common? No? Well, we humans along
In today’s society college students engaging in consuming alcohol is expected. Dr. Lori Hart explained to the students the mindset of the typical college student engaging in alcohol; how the brain is undeveloped, drink responsibly and information on binge drinking.
Introduction: In the United States more than 1,800 college students have lost their lives from alcohol related causes. These numbers have seen a steady increase since the year of 1998. Drinking while at college has become a part of the college culture. Student see this as a part of the higher education experience. A lot of college alcohol problems are linked to binge drinking. Binge drinking cause a huge concerns and poses serious health and safety risks which often includes sexual assault, drunk driving arrests, car crashes and injuries. Researchers are finding ways to improve college student’s alcohol consumptions issues. A way, I feel can help solve this problem is by having students download IntelliDrink application on their phones. IntelliDrink helps people monitor blood alcohol concentration levels and also tell you what time blood levels goes down so that they person may be able to drive. We are all college students who may encounter people who have been really drunk. After doing extensive research, I want to prove why InteliDrink is a good resolution.
Thesis: While college is a great time for emerging adults experience alcohol, the abuse of alcohol can be consequential to the development of a proper and healthy adult.
Research has supported the observation that young people in America consume alcohol regularly; this prevalence of use increases rapidly during adolescence, as well as a few years afterward (Wagenaar and Wolfson 37). This has come to be a problem among college students. It has been shown through extensive quantitative and qualitative research that those under twenty-one years of age are able to obtain alcohol, which allows them to binge drink. Binge drinking holds many problems for college students: alcohol poisoning, DUIs, traffic accidents, and even fatalities.
Getting Wasted: Why College Students Drink Too Much and Party So Hard by Thomas Vander Ven (2011) is about why college students are stuck in the loop of abusing alcohol on a regular basis. Getting Wasted in conjunction with The Sociology of American Drug Use by Charles E. Faupel, Greg S. Weaver, and Jay Corzine (2014) which explains drug use from a sociological perspective gives us the tools needed to analyze and form conclusions about alcohol use in America. The reasons behind alcohol use and abuse can vary greatly depending on the situation that the user comes from or is currently experiencing. The reactions of the people around the user can also be different based on each individual's opinion.
In this day and age, when it comes to alcohol consumption and laws of alcohol use in countries around the world, many people debate about whether the legal drinking age should be raised, lowered, or stay the same. What about a society where alcohol would be illegal?? Well, when it comes to the sheer number of deaths that occur from drunk driving alone, you’d end up agreeing with it. To add to this, addiction is always a risk to be taken into consideration, because it leads to alcohol poisoning, eventually causing death. All in all, alcohol is something that is just as addictive as any other drug, and should it be treated as an illegal drug as well. The following are just some of the many reasons why this should be so.
I believe that the majority of teens will have a drink and or Drug, or have been offered. If that is thrue peer pressure, or just being curious and wanting to have “fun”. I don't think it is a wise thing to take part in. I know people do it. Laws are put in place for a reason. I was always taught that your brain is not fully developed until you're 25 years old. And the legal drinking age is 21. They expect that you will make good choices. Teens have know idea what they are doing and the type of effect it can have on them and they don't care. Drinking a using drugs comes from a place of wanting to have fun or filling a gap in there life. Most likely all alright american citizens have been offered something where that is a shot of vodka of some
Throughout history, society has engaged in taking substances such as alcohol, that alter our physical being or our psychological state of mind. There are many experiences and pressures that force people to feel like they have to drink in order to cope with life, but for many alcohol is a part of everyday life, just like any other beverage. Alcohol is introduced to us in many ways, through our family, television, movies, and friends’. These “sociocultural variants are at least as important as physiological and psychological variants when we are trying to understand the interrelations of alcohol and human behavior”#. How we perceive drinking and continue drinking can be determined by the drinking habits we see, either by who we drink with,
The speech is aimed at highlighting the negative effects that excessive intake of alcohol and habitual alcoholism can have on the social aspects of a person and the health repercussions of the aforementioned behavior. The content of the speech is largely informative and in very small part persuasive for people to reconsider their drinking habits.