College drinking

To identify binge drinking as a social issue, one must have clear understanding of college students. This understanding means to have knowledge of the history of binge drinking. Conceptualizing the topic binge drinking, means to explore how it transition over time and determine the factors that contributed to the widespread of it becoming a social issue amongst college students. Alcohol abuse and drugs on college campus were not new, it became a big concern in the United States during the 1980s

Henry Wechsler in Getting Serious about Eradicating Binge Drinking, stresses how modern college students think that binge drinking is a norm in college life. I agree with Wechsler that the modern college student thinks binge drinking is normal. In High School, people would binge drink on a regular basis, and that eventually carried over into collegiate life. After being in college for about a month now, I realized that every night students binge drink either at bars, fraternity houses, or tailgates

Binge Drinking and its Criminal Impact on College Students Introduction Breaking the cycle that under age and college students are inherent to becoming exposed to binge drinking at an excessive rate more than adults (DeSimone, 2010). Taking part in binge drinking can lead to prospective illegal and illicit behavior on the part of those parties involved, activities such as rape over alcoholic consumption, drinking and driving, are just some of the effects of the crisis of college drinking. Some of

alcohol related problems. Today, many people believe that lowering the drinking age back down to eighteen would reduce and or solve the problem of binge drinking among college students. A simple answer can be conjured up, no. What many people don’t realize

underage drinkers (“National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism”). In 1984, when The National Minimum Drinking Act was passed, the drinking age was raised from age 18 to age 21. Even though the drinking age had only been raised a total of three years, it brought room for mental growth in the people that would then have to wait to be able to legally drink. Because of The National Minimum Drinking Act, fatalities and injuries lowered substantially in the following years creating a safer environment

Effects of on-campus housing on college students’ drinking behavior: A Literature Review Educational scholars have widely researched the effects of on-campus housing on the behavior of college students and one of the behavioral effects is on drinking behavior. Researchers from both the United States and New Zealand have found that students living in residential halls on campus demonstrate the greatest rates for drinking and peer pressure for drinking (Rickwood, et al., 2011.). Leontini, et al.

According to “College Drinking,” almost two out of three college students engage in binge drinking. Binge drinking is a pattern of drinking that brings blood alcohol concentration (BAC) levels to 0.08 g/dL or higher (“College Drinking”). Many parents, guardians, and psychologists believe that college students binge drink because they think drinking is an integral part of their higher education. Similar to peer pressure, college students drink because the rest of the student body drinks. Furthermore

In the United States, over 80% of college students have at least one alcoholic drink over a two-week time period. Out of these college students, 40% are binge drinking on occasion. (Johnston, O’Malley, Bachman, & Schulenberg, 2009). Binge drinking among college students is due to the college environment and mostly effects freshmen in college. Now that young people are no longer living in their parents’ home and are not being supervised as much as they were before they now have the freedom to do whatever

Binge Drinking among College Students and Its Implications on the Society Binge drinking is a term used to describe a situation where women drink more than 4 bottles of alcohol in a row and men drink 5 or more bottles of alcohol in a row. It is taking too much alcohol in a short period. Alcohol is a substance that gradually produces an addiction in the body. Many college students use alcohol in recreational activities and parties. The alcohol gradually leads to addiction and causes a decline in their

studies previously analyzed, we can accept that binge drinking is a phenomenon that is present amongst college students everywhere. The increasing number of college students being affected by binge drinking is relatively high, particularly amongst first-year college students in the United States. The effects that binge drinking can bring as investigated in the studies previously mentioned, should raise enough concerns that will allow college campuses to take immediate action to address this major