Binge Drinking We all know what it is like to wake up in the morning‚ your head is aching‚ and your body feels like it was hit by a big garbage truck. College students worldwide know this feeling. These are the results of binge drinking. Why do they do it? Binge drinking is defined for men as drinking five or more drinks in a row in the past two weeks‚ and for women as drinking four r more drinks in a row ( ICAP 1). This has become a great pastime for college students nationwide and
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event ended with 20 graduates at the local emergency room‚ with 17 being treated for alcohol poisoning. Binge drinking has been generally defined as the prolonged use of alcohol (usually for two or more days) while giving up normal responsibilities and activities in order to become intoxicated. Officially‚ the National Institutes of Health defines binge drinking as "a pattern of drinking that brings a person’s blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to 0.08 grams percent or above." This level of BAC can
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Water: the source of life Water is an indefinable element. It can be destructible and wipe out the strongest forces in the world while it was also the beginning of life. It gives a lot but it can take back more than that. Water is one of the four elements of nature. It’s represented in the liquid form while earth is sold‚ air is gas and fire is the in-between of all. Water is important to every living thing. For plants it’s absorbed from the soil‚ for humans it’s for drinking and use for various
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Water is a chemical compound with the chemical formula H 2O. A water molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms that are connected by covalent bonds. Water is a liquid at standard ambient temperature and pressure‚ but it often co-exists on Earth with its solid state‚ ice‚ and gaseous state‚ steam (water vapor). Water covers 71% of the Earth’s surface.[1] It is vital for all known forms of life. On Earth‚ 96.5% of the planet’s water is found in seas and oceans‚ 1.7% in groundwater‚ 1
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D. fought to eliminate alcoholic fatalities among young adults. As a result‚ the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed to the states that stated to raise the minimum drinking age to twenty-one or lose ten percent of their Federal Highway Funding. Many people agree that the raising of the legal drinking age has become more of a problem than a solution. There has been proof that the drinking age law isn’t causing much difference‚ but instead‚ a downgrade. The main purpose of the law was to
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Underage Drinking : What’s the solutions? Drinking alcohol is the best way to forget people’s problems. That is common belief of many persons who want to escape from their problems and believe that drinking can solve their problem. Unfortunately‚ they complicate their life with the grave consequences of drinking. The three most common solutions of underage drinking are parental control‚ strict law‚ and consultant’s support. Initially‚ parental control has become the first possible
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Underage Drinking Underage drinkers drink to look cool and it may be the social thing to do at the latest party or even at home; feeling curious a teen may consume alcohol to fit in with their surroundings. This can be due to the fact that the minor could be pressured into drinking. With all the popular media hype about alcohol and especially during the Super Bowl; it just shows minors that it is okay to participate in drinking and if they do‚ this great boost will occur. The other cause to these
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about alcohol and some of the permanent dangers of drinking‚ many of Australia’s teens do not. 40% of 14-19 year-olds consume alcohol at levels that risk harm in the short-term‚ such as; accident and injury. In Australia alone‚ alcohol accounts for 13% of all deaths among 14–17 year-olds and it has been estimated that one Australian teenager dies and more than 60 are hospitalized each week from alcohol-related causes. But wait‚ isn’t the legal drinking age 18? So how do teenagers get a hold of alcohol
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of Study This study covers the determinants of alcohol drinking among OLOPSC students. From the researcher’s observation‚ alcohol drinking is a big part of college student’s activities nowadays. Some considered it an essential part of celebrations‚ sharing problems‚ escaping boredom‚ or just discussing business matters. Identifying the influential persons and causes why OLOPSC students drink alcoholic beverages will help us understand and relate to
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Drinking at 18 The drinking age should be 18 because less high school students would binge drink. For three reason. One reason is that The united states is in the minority of have the drinking age be 21. Another reason is If 18 year olds have other big responsiblities they should be resopsible enough to drink. Also having the alcohol age being 18 would make teens less likely to become criminal. There are only four countries including the United States that order 21 to be the drinking age. In
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