scholars have discovered that binge drinking at an early age can lead to lasting damage to your body‚ and especially the brain. It can lower a number of stem cells in a person’s hippocampus. Besides all these facts‚ drinking is still socially acceptable‚ but why is that? The term binge drinking refers to the heavy consumption of alcohol over a short amount of time‚ and when teenagers drink at parties‚ they do it to get wasted. We all kind of know the side effects of drinking‚ not only the day after but the
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What You Need To Know Before You Quit Drinking By Jason Bacot Jun 5‚ 2009 When you have a drinking problem‚ the answer lies within you to fix it. In order to obtain any help to quit drinking‚ you first have to admit that you do have a drinking problem. There are now a number of treatments available to alcoholics‚ but going in for such treatment is a waste of time‚ unless you first take responsibility for your drinking and the problems it has caused you in your life. There are two things that you
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T-Th 12:30 – 1:45 Vandiver Binge Drinking Among College Students Many studies show that the majority of college students binge drink. Those who binge drink are more likely to be male‚ involved in a fraternity or sorority (Weschler‚ 1995)‚ are athletes (Presley et al. 2002)‚ and are more likely to be arrested for alcohol related incidents than other students (Leinfelt & Fredrik 2004). Students who binge drink show lower GPA’s‚ drug abuse‚ unplanned sexual activity‚ and drive under the influence
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binge drinking declined from 12- to 20-year old males but not females in this age range. NO reduction in binge drinking occurred for college males. In a national study‚ 13.8% of eighth-graders reported having at least one drink in the past 30 days‚ and 11.5% had been drunk at least once in the past year. Today‚ alcohol is widely available and aggressively promoted throughout society. And alcohol use continues to be regarded‚ by many people‚ as a normal part of growing up. Yet underage drinking is dangerous
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What Causes Binge Drinking Binge Drinking is an intriguing phenomenon that many college students take part in all across the country. The issue of binge drinking has been a problem on college campuses for decades. Binge drinking has many horrible effects‚ but the problem starts with the causes for it. If the causes could be controlled then the issue would not get out of hand. Many college students give different causes for their drinking problems‚ and experts on the subject have their explanations
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2002 REVIEW REPORTED LEVELS OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND BINGE DRINKING WITHIN THE UK UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT POPULATION OVER THE LAST 25 YEARS JAN S. GILL Department of Occupational Therapy and Art Therapy‚ Queen Margaret University College‚ Leith‚ Edinburgh EH6 8HX‚ UK (Received 4 July 2001; in revised form 24 August 2001; accepted 28 September 2001) Abstract — Results of a literature review of 18 studies investigating the drinking behaviour of undergraduate students at UK universities over a
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Monitor‚ a college market research company‚ college student’s state that the three biggest problems on college campuses are the cost‚ stress and drinking. Now more than ever‚ college binge drinking is becoming a relevant issue and it is often linked to rape and sexual assault. A recent study conducted by‚ The Maryland Collaborative to Reduce College Drinking and Related Problems‚ found “that alcohol use of any kind on campuses across the country each year results in 1‚800 deaths; 600‚000 injuries; 700
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Factors in Favor of and Against Lowering the Legal Drinking Age in the United States There are many different reasons‚ facts and opinions for and against the subject of whether or not the legal drinking age in the United States should be lowered. I have researched this topic and added my own personal views and thoughts on the issue. This is a controversy in which many people have different views. Six Reasons for why the legal drinking age should be lowered are: 1) The legal age to become
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problem. Parents don’t know how to stop it or they choose to bury their heads in the sand and not have to deal with it. There are many consequences associated with underage drinking. Parents need to be able to talk to their children about it. There are strategies that parents can use on their child to prevent underage drinking. Alcohol is the most broadly abused substance among America’s childhood. Immature liquor use is not an adequate transitional experience‚ but rather a genuine risk to juvenile
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Mistral W‚ Bengry-Howell A‚ Weale L‚ & Hackley C. (2008). Re-framing ’binge drinking’ as calculated hedonism: empirical evidence from the UK. International Journal of Drug Policy. 19(5)‚ 359-66. Overview: The main aim of this study was to put forward a new meaning to the phrase “binge drinking” when connected to young consumers of alcohol in the UK. The study tries to show the difference between the definitions of binge drinking and calculated hedonism‚ which refers to a process of controlling alcohol
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