The Positive And Negative Consequences Of Drinking

There has been a large amount of research regarding underage drinking and the long-term effect that it can have on a person’s body and their mental state. The public is often informed of phases and activities that underage students are partaking in that can be extremely harmful to themselves that they are not aware of. In the journal article “The Use of Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverages Among Underage Drinkers: Results of a National Survey” they examine the relationship between the tendencies underage drinkers who drink non-traditional caffeinated alcoholic beverages and traditionally caffeinated alcoholic beverages. The study defines non-traditional CABs as Pre-Mixed Sodas or Energy Drinks with Liquor added and defined traditional CABs as Liquor with soda, coffee, or tea added by the beverage consumer.

The Drinker Inventory of Consequences (DrInc) is a 50 questionnaire consisting of questions pertaining to a client’s physical, social, intrapersonal, impulse control, and interpersonal problems on a likert scale (Van Wormer & Davis, 2013). DrInc analyzes a client’s alcohol use, severity, treatments, and treatment outcomes, and changes in alcohol problems overtime (Miller, Tonigan & Longabaugh, 1995). DrInc is given to clients at an onsite location where there are limited distractions (PUBS). The counselor will explain why the assessment is being given and what information will be collected from the data (Miller et al., 1995). One of the main strengths of DrInc is it’s reliability, validity, and usefulness

There is a general feeling that filling in the Drinker Inventory of Consequences an individual responds to a number of events that drinker’s experience. It is a well-crafted strategy that helps to assess the problems caused by alcoholism since it encircles the events within personal life, family relationships, job problems, and financial constraints, problems with the police, belligerence, and others associated with drinking. Although the draft highlights most of the key issues affecting or affected by alcoholism, it also in a small extent invades the privacy of the drinkers. For instance, a person is asked if the sex life is affected by alcohol, change in marriage or love relationships, if a drinker has lost a marriage or a close love relationship. These are supposed to be private/personal issues but are brought up in the survey draft. Consequently, the questions asked are on target for clients

of alcoholism makes diagnosis more difficult. Interventions that tell the client not to drink apparently

The United States has one of the highest legal drinking ages among the developed world, and the entire world overall (McCardell). Yet underage drinking is still prevalent in American drinking culture, and typically indicates an instance of binge drinking and often results in dangerous activity (Hingson, Zha, and Weitzman). Supporters of the current federal policy on the drinking age would suggest that drinking under 21 results in these instances of irresponsible drinking by default. Other developed countries in Europe have lower drinking ages and trends that would suggest otherwise (Rooney). The legal drinking age in the United States should be lowered to at least 18 years old to ensure a safer drinking environment for young people and to

Alcohol is something that some of us can't resist and we have different relationships with it. Some people drink it because they’re going through something painful while others drink just for fun. Whether it’s for fun or not drinking have become a huge issue for society and statics show that many people are dying in accidents under the influence of alcohol or other drugs.

The drinking age is a very controversial issue that people tend to talk about a lot. The minimum legal drinking age should always stay at twenty one years of age. For the United States and should not be lowered to age eighteen. The maturity level has a lot to do when it comes to drinking. At eighteen years old the mind is entering the phase of adulthood which in some cases the eighteen years old just graduated from high school. Maturity is by far what on how they are going to want to act society has been making them think doing bad things is a good thing. Negative affect is causing them to get affected mentally at a young age. The damages on the brain would cause extremely health issues later in life. The health defects to the youth, such as

Usually, when something meant for consumption is found to cause complications and even death in humans, people will steer clear of it. When such a product is come across, it becomes banned in many countries, the United States included. The FDA conducts many tests to determine what is and isn't safe for public consumption, and when the results show short-term or long-term negative effects in health, the product is banned. Alcohol has both long-term and short-term negative health effects, so why has it not been banned? Why do people not avoid something they know will destroy their bodies and adversely affect their health? People don't go around sipping on rat poison the last time I checked. The answer to these questions is I don't know; I don't

Binge drinking can also have an effect on pregnancy, it can cause damage to the foetus. It can have long-term adverse effects on the foetus, it can impair attentional skills and can lead to psychiatric disorders when the child grows up. Not only does binge drinking effect you but it can affect the people around them, it can have effects on their relationships with the opposite sex, can damage relationships with family and it can also affect your children, if your drinking is really bad then it can cause you to lose your children and they will go into care, it can also cause the children physical problems. From research it shows that 1 in 25 percent of pregnant women binge drink and 1 in 5 non pregnant women binge drink. Binge drinking

Small amounts of alcohol have many effects on your body. When you drink alcohol it goes straight into your bloodstream and is distributed throughout your entire body. Alcohol consumption causes many physical and emotional changes that can do the greatest amount of harm to your body. There are long- term effects of drinking alcohol, putting your body and health at risk. Alcohol can take a toll your digestive system. Drinking heavy or small amounts can injure parts of your digestive tract. Alcohol can damage several things such as: salivary glands, tongue, can lead to gum disease, tooth decay , and even tooth loss. It can cause heartburn, acid reflux, and ulcers in the esophagus. Inflammation in the pancreas kan mess with your ability to digest and metabolism. By your digestive system being damaged it can cause gassiness, abdominal fullness, and diarrhea and kan also lead to internal bleeding. A single drink of alcohol can cause trouble on your heart. Stroke , heart attack , heart failure, high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat , and poisoning of the

Within this experiment there are multiple limitations that occurred which could be the result of the hypothesis not being true. One limitation that could have affected the outcome of the experiment is the age of the participants. Most individuals who took the survey stated that they were in their second year of college. That means that most have not reached the legal age to drink, which is twenty-one. If most participants have not been out to bars, or even possibly experienced drinking. With that being said it would be difficult for those participants to answer the scenarios involving drinking. Another limitation is social desirability, what that means is that the participants answered how they think they are expected to answer. Meaning that

Many alcohol consumers only think about the positive effects of consuming alcohol, the pleasurable time they will have with their friends. Little do they know, about the negative effects alcohol carries with it. This research will discus the negative effects alcohol has regarding: addiction, genetics, health, family, and advertisement.

As we all know, alcohol is a product that has provided a variety of functions for people in the world. Alcoholic beverages have been consumed by humans in the very early time, they were one of the most popular drink and have been widely used in everywhere of the world. Also they were used medicinally, chemically, physically and so on.

Alcohol is a very serious and dangerous drug, although it is not treated this way anymore. College students have taken drinking to a new level in which, for many, is very scary. Alcohol is much more dangerous than many would think. Kids see a night of drinking as a great way to have fun and party but do not see the consequences. Getting drunk and even blacking out can lead to many problems. When alcohol is consumed in unhealthy amounts, it can lead to not only short-term effects, but long-term ones as well.

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.