Alcohol Abuse Advice

Binge drinking

<!– p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman} span.s1 {letter-spacing: 0.0px} –> <!– p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px} span.s1 {letter-spacing: 0.0px} span.Apple-tab-span {white-space:pre} –>

In the United States of America, the number of students experienced with binge drinking has skyrocketed. From a report was released by the Harvard School of Public Health at two hundred American students found that nearly half of all college students binge drink, and frequent binge drinking among students increased forty percent during the 1990s. According to National Center for Health Statistics, over five thousand students die each year because of alcohol abuse, and it has changed the ways that Americans people live, talk, and think about drinking alcohol. Binge drinking is significantly increased in high schools and colleges for several reasons; including lack of acknowledge about alcohol and the possibility of alcohol poisoning. The effects of binge drinking are overwhelming to many students both physical and mental sides, and relating with serious consequences for students’ physical, academic, and community-emotional functioning. When we combine these reasons it is no wonder that the use of alcohol is associated with the leading causes of death and injury from 1,700 college students from the age 18 to 24 die each year from unintentional alcohol misuse.

An article “Too many colleges are still in denial about alcohol abuse” written by Henry Wechsler, principal investigator from Harvard University’s School of Public Health. He gives a specific explanation about binge drinking as: “Binge drinking-defined as the heavy, episodic use of alcohol-has persisted in campuses despite both a general decrease in alcohol consumption among Americans and an increase in the number of abstainers” (part. 7). Binge drinking is defined as, for men, who consumed five or more alcoholic drinks in a row, and for women, who consumed four or more alcoholic drinks in a row at least once in a two-week period. There is a number of causes relate to the high rate of binge drinking on colleges such as the freedom of being away from home, the insecurity of a new social environment, and the pressure put on students in their classes play a huge role in out of control. Moreover, the root of the problem lies in the fact that their parents, community and colleges accept binge drinking as a common thing and normal. In this point of view, students begin drinking alcohol because by doing this they accomplish a psychological social need, and they follow what the majority does, in this case binge drink, makes students feel accepted and fulfills their social need. A friend, who was in the same high school with me, told me that: “I drank because I was in college, I was free from home, and all my classmates were doing it too.” As many freshmen in colleges, it is their first time away from home, and they are curious about everything that they can manage on campus. They are too young, unknowledgeable to make logical decisions, and because of their low self-confidence, feelings of personal insufficiency, and feelings popular among college freshmen, can lead students to begin drinking.

In an article “Binge Drinking as a Substitute for a Community of Learning”, written by Kenneth A. Bruffee, the author gives us a vivid look about the role of binge drinking for community of learning in college: “If you ask a cross-section of college student about their friends, some may say they occasionally talk with a few of them about their course work and their intellectual and aesthetic interests.With the rest of their friends, they will say, such topics seldom come up” (part.10). Students perceive many benefits of drinking alcohol because social drinking in their community has become an essential activity at parties. According to research from the Harvard School of Public Health, which gives us a result that student’s GPA can be affected by the amount of alcohol consumed. From 40,000 students at 66 colleges and universities were surveyed about their drinking alcohol habits, and it was revealed that students with an A average consume more than three drinks per week, students with B average have five drinks per week, students with C average more than six drinks per week, and students getting D and F average consume an average of nine drinks per week. The statistics of the survey warns the students of a danger of binge drinking, but most students are not listening. However, no matter what binge drinkers do not admit they have a problem or not, they will experience the consequences of their behavior. The traumatic consequences of binge drinking are not only put the drinker at risk, but they also affect to other students, who are not binge drinking. Students, who are not binge drinking, but live at schools with these binge drinkers, were up to three times more likely to report being bothered by the binge drinkers’ behaviors of other students who did participate in binge drinking. These problems included being pushed, hit, assaulted, and experiencing an unwanted sexual abuse.

According to biological perspective from psychology, which determines the influence of biology on our gens, personalities characteristic, and various behaviors patterns. Psychologists assume that mental process, thoughts, acts, and dreams are made possible by the nervous system. Biological psychology has shown that certain parts of the brain are highly active when we listen to music, other parts are active when we solve math problems, and other parts are involved with certain psychological disorders. Alcohol defects may lead people to uncontrolled behaviors, even some personality disorders. When alcohol flows to the brain, it goes to the frontal lobe of the cortex, which called the reasoning part. If drinkers continue drinking, the speech and perception centers of the brain become sedated, and the reasoning part becomes incapacitated. Finally, if drinkers take more drinking, the conscious brain becomes totally subdued, and they pass out.At this point, drinkers can drink no more because a higher dose would anesthetize the deepest brain centers that control breathing and heartbeat, causing death. The effects of alcohol into the body are incalculable. Binge drinker with alcohol addiction for a long time, they will depend on alcohol to deal with certain things in everyday life because the whole brain system is under the control of alcohol. Lastly, the impact of binge drinking on students can cause much serious health such as liver disease, cancer, and death.

Binge drinking has become a serious problem for college students and community today. There is currently no cure at this time for binge drinking or alcoholism, but it can be treated. These treatments use both counseling and medication to help a person to stop drinking. For example, if a student has binge drinking problem, but has not been become as an alcoholic. There is a chance that person could cut down on drinking. If a student has binge drinking problem for a long time, and become an alcoholic. The student’s family need to adjust the mood changes and behaviors of an alco

Find More Binge Drinking And Alcoholism Articles