Healty People 2020 -- Binge Drinking
Healthy People 2020
Healthy People 2020 -- Binge Drinking
This report covers the topic of Healthy People 2020 and their focus on reducing the amount of binge drinking in adults over the next 10 years. This paper will cover the current situation, the improvability of the metric, the inclusiveness of the metric, a review of the literature related to the topic, a statistical comparison between Michigan and the rest of the United as it relates to the metric and any recommendations.
Current Status & Impacts
Per the Health People 2020 website, the current amount of adults that binge drink at least once every 30 days stands at 27.1%. The current goal between now and 2020 is to reduce that amount to 24.6%, or a reduction of exactly 10% of the current value. The ways in which people imbibe to excess includes drinking a lot of alcohol, even beer, in a short period of time. Other examples include taking shots and/or drinking drinks that are very high in alcohol such as Everclear and Sambuca (HealthyPeople 2020, 2013).
The impact to families and individuals from this dangerous habit is extensive. One immediately example of a consequence is alcohol poisoning and other deleterious effects from drinking a massive amount of alcohol in a short period of time. The legal limit in terms of being drunk on alcohol is 0.08% BAC but many people give above the 0.1 and 0.2% marks quite often. Getting above 0.3% to 0.4% percent can be fatal (HealthyPeople 2020, 2013).
Other effects stem from abusing alcohol over protracted periods of time. Effects of this include damage to the intestines and liver. Other examples include becoming mentally and/or physically dependent on alcohol. People that drink alcohol to excess often have problems getting and/or keeping employment, they are much more likely to be violent to others including family and they often have unstable if not dangerous lives in general. Another raging concern relative to any drinking to excess is people that binge drink driving drunk, although this is also true of people that drink a large amount over a wider time period which is...
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