Drinking Habits Among College Students EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Prepared by: Paul Ziehm Brett Moravec Dennis Benthin Tom Sturino EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Introduction Drinking among college students is an important and controversial issue relating to campuses across the entire U.S. Some students even place the social life available on campus above the quality of the academics when choosing which school to attend. The purpose of this study was to further explore the intricacies of college
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Kevin Conlon Pitfalls of Underage Drinking and Marijuana Use On the road of life everyone can expect twist and turns‚ valleys and hills. Good choices and healthy living can help us avoid pitfalls or places where we can truly get delayed and disoriented. Two such pitfalls are underage drinking and marijuana use. These two practices can lead to health problems‚ judgment impairment and legal consequences. Underage drinking is a very serious problem and it brings some serious consequences along
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Binge drinking or heavy episodic drinking is the modern epithet for drinking alcoholic beverages with the primary intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption of alcohol over a short period of time.[1] It is a kind of purposeful drinking style that is popular in several countries worldwide‚ and overlaps somewhat with social drinking since it is often done in groups. The degree of intoxication‚ however‚ varies between and within various cultures that engage in this practice. A binge on alcohol
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Negative Effects of Binge Drinking The consumption of alcohol at an unhealthy and dangerous rate has a profound long term effect on the abuser. In particular‚ consuming enough alcohol to reach a blood alcohol content level measuring .200 can result in a major drop in inhibition which can lead to careless and illegal behavior. Often in social situations excess drinking is accompanied by a misunderstanding of sexual consent‚ leaThe ding to frequent violations of one’s personal well-being. The body
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Dominicia Ferrell Mrs. Burns English 101 December 1‚ 2011 Should the legal drinking age be raised (or lowered)? Should the drinking age be lowered to eighteen years old‚ when one is considered an adult‚ and assumes adult privileges‚ or should the drinking age remain at twenty-one years old‚ since people are more mature and therefore‚ can be safe and responsible with alcohol? I believe that the drinking age should remain at twenty-one years old because lowering the legal age would not be the
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example died after a seven hour drinking binge and approximately 24 drinks. His blood alcohol level was measured at 0.58‚ which was six times the legally establish limit to drive a vehicle (Cohen‚ 1997)." I proceeded into looking up the references which was about Cohen A. (1997‚ September 8) Battle of the Binge‚ time‚ pp. 54-56. The article was about college students and binge drinking. I realized that from the moment freshmen set foot on campus‚ they are steeped in a culture that encourages them to drink
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English B Text Production – Argument Topic: Should the legal drinking age in Australia be raised to 21? Raising the legal drinking age in Australia to 21 proves to have many foreseeable positive and negative outcomes‚ as various physical and psychological health complications along with external issues that can affect multiple people are involved‚ each demonstrating different consequences for young adults. These concerns often revolve around drink driving‚ brain development and social influences
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Qualitative Article Title: Public Drinking and Violence: Not just an Alcohol Problem Authors: Ross Homel‚ Steve Tomsen‚ Jennifer Thommeny The research article was published in Journal of Drug issue 22 in 1992. The research was conducted using a qualitative approach that uses words as the output and input of the research rather than focusing on numbers (Adlers and Clark‚ 2008). The writer also agrees with the notion that qualitative data have the ability to produce theories that accurately
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Gabriel Araujo Mrs. Brooks English II 7 May 2013 Freedom of Expression: Why Drinking Age Should be Lowered At age 18 in the United States you are now considered an adult‚ and expected to make your own decisions‚ hopefully the right ones. If you want you can even sign up for the military or vote for president. These decisions are not easy to make which is why only an adult can decide these types of decisions. Even though you can make all these grown up decisions‚ you can not make the decision
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By ABby Not Lowering Drinking Age “Approximately 92% of U.S. adults who drink excessively report binge drinking in the past 30 days (Fact Sheets).” The local government should not lower the drinking age to 18 because lowing this effect the frontal lobes development‚ there would be more ‘binge drinking’‚ and there would be more alcohol-associated violent behavior. But if the local government were to lower the drinking age‚ there would be less of a thrill. According Christian Moyer research‚ “"We
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