heard the terms boozing‚ drinking to get drunk‚ sloshed‚ tanked‚ tipsy‚ tooted‚ and hammered. But have you ever really thought about what you were saying when you used these terms. You were saying that all that you did the night before was binge drink. Binge drinking on college campuses is something that has grown to an all time high but who’s to blame? All too often we have heard the horror stories of how kids are getting behind the wheel of a car after a night of binge drinking‚ and end up killing everyone
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Teen Binge Drinking Can Do Long-Term Brain Damage First of all‚ what is binge drinking? Binge drinking refers to the act of drinking heavily over a short period of time or drinking continuously over a number of days or weeks. If someone drinks heavily over a long period of time‚ they can become physically and psychologically dependent upon alcohol. Their body gets used to functioning with alcohol present and drinking can become more important than other activities in their life. Over time‚ alcohol
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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
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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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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………………… 5 UNDERAGE DRINKING…………………………………………………………………... 5 MILITARY UNDERGE DRINKING……………………………………………………..... 7 BINGE DRINKING……………………………………………………............................... 8 CONCLUSION……………………………………………………..................................... 11 RECOMMENDATIONS/SOLUTIONS……………………………………………………. 11 MILITARY WINGMAN CONCEPT……………………………………………………..... 13 ENFORCING THE LAW……………………………………………………...................... 15 WORKS CITED……………………………………………………
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Binge drinking is a modern epithet for drinking alcoholic beverages with an intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption of alcohol over a short period of time. Binge drinking is out of control in many college town campuses. The actual act of drinking alcohol is not necessarily the big issue here; it is the way people are drinking it whether they are legally old enough or not. The issue is binge drinking of college students mostly or anyone really. Drinking alcohol can have many consequences
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College Binge Drinking Epidemic Throughout the years‚ drinking alcohol in excessive amounts has become somewhat synonymous with the college experience. It has become an expected occurrence for college-aged students to drink and party regularly‚ and overtime has transformed into an accepted social norm of college life. Extreme drinking has been a consistent social problem that has substantially grown on college campuses all around the United States for the past few decades. In fact‚ binge drinking
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Despite the fact that college drinking has caused many issues‚ it has not been stopped‚ yet. College drinking is not only harmful for students who consume alcohol but also for other people who live around the campus. It has a bad influence on the social lives of the general population. Although some people might argue that most college students are only drinking on weekends to release stress and have fun‚ in the article‚ “Why Colleges Haven’t Stopped Binge Drinking‚” Beth McMurtrie argues that students
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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
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