The Importance Of Binge Drinking

Even though the legal age for drinking is 21, substance abuse is still relatively high for adolescences. According to the text book, only about 20% of U.S. college students stay away from alcohol. The college students in the 90% who drink, might even be binge drinking. Basically, binge drinking is when an individual has five or more drinks in a row, it’s not just regular drinking. Also, extreme binge drinking is when an individual has 10 or more drinks in a row. However, the book does state that about 37% of college students make up those who binge drink and about 13% are those who extreme binge drink. If you think about it, that makes up 50% of those who do drink, drink irresponsibly.
I do not think that binge drinking is a problem here
However, three of the five have participated in pregaming. All five of the interviewees do drink. Only three of them drink on occasions and two of them drink about once a week.
Overall, when I asked what where their thoughts on how college campuses should regulate substance abuse, they basically said that colleges shouldn’t do anything or they said whatever. “Sure, I could care less” “I think colleges shouldn’t have any input on what adults do with their body.” “Honestly I don’t think there is a way, us as growing teens and young adults are going to do what we want… There’s nothing to stop us really other than huge eye opening occurrences in each and every life”
Now, ironically when I asked if they believed that YTC students have enough education when we think about binge drinking and etc. They said no…. which honestly caught me off guard, however, I will admit I had to explain what binge drink was to a few and pregaming. “no they don’t” “ummm. I don’t think so” “NO’ “maybe a little” I only had one interviewee who said yes. “We know the consequences but we will do what we want when we want. Nothing is done before we think about it, but at the same time not enough damage is done once we start drinking to prove a point to any teenager or young