Binge Drinking Among College Students
Individuals make numerous choices throughout their lives that shape the course of their future, both for the better and the worse. College is one of the first times most individuals face various challenges, both academically and personally. One of the most common decisions individuals struggle with during college is whether or not to experiment with alcohol and/or drugs. hile most college students drink socially at fraternity parties or after football games, a certain percentage of college students drink more frequently, engaging in what is often referred to as binge drinking. Although most adults and society view college drinking as relatively harmless, the fact is that binge drinking presents many threats to college students as well as society in general, both emotionally and physically.

There are a multitude of issues related to binge drinking among college students. Statistics regarding binge drinking among college students magnify the gravity of…...

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But 'Big alcohol' in Australia has been accused of using many of the similar PR techniques as American tobacco companies to protect its interests and this contributes to the culture of binge drinking. hile the "alcohol industry does not want to be seen in the same light as big tobacco, they are using the identical strategies of heavy advertising, heavy promotion, heavy sponsorship, opposing tax increases and soft education programs that don't work" (The medical news, 2009).
According to a 2009 article entitled "e have a problem with alcohol? Most Aussies say 'yes,'" the majority of Australians acknowledge that something must change, culturally, and in terms of government social policy, to thwart the influence of alcohol on daily life: "70% want more action from government and think that government needs to do more in terms of advertising and of sponsorship," and are willing to endure greater government intervention to curb…...

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"More college students die from alcohol each year than U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq in a year-and-a-half. Statistically speaking, alcohol abuse is a more deadly enemy than terrorism." hile the merits of this comparison are debatable, is does drive home the point that students are needlessly dying because they do not fully understand the dangers of drinking.
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Dormish, Marty. "Bing Drinking is Detrimental to College Students." Round Up News 30 Sept. 2004. Available:

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eitzman, E.R., and Nelson, T.F., "College Student Binge Drinking and the "Prevention Paradox" Implications for Prevention and Harm Reduction." Journal of Drug Education 2004; 34 (3) 247-266. Available: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas/Documents/paradox/Prev_Paradox.pdf (Accessed 8 May 2005).

Dormish, Marty. "Bing Drinking is Detrimental to College Students." Round Up News 30 Sept. 2004. Available:

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Although alcohol is an individual affliction, the fact that so many individuals as a group have tested positive for alcohol abuse at the workplace indicates a strong likelihood that a culture of addiction has taken hold. De-normalizing the behavior is an essential first step in reducing employee consumption -- employees must realize they 'have a problem' in order to feel motivated to seek help. Denial and acceptance of drunkenness as a normal state is part of the culture of alcoholism, and fosters individual alcohol abuse.
Management must support employee's willingness to seek treatment. Alcoholism must be treated as a disease or employees will hide in shame, fearing sanctions and job loss. Having Alcoholics Anonymous meetings on premises after and before work; posting signs directing employees to AA meetings in the community; making pamphlets available on alcohol treatment and information; and even having treatment specialists to come to speak to employees…...

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Finally, the research showed that while binge drinking practices have decreased among the larger population in the United States in recent years, there continues to be a high prevalence of binge drinking among college students that has created a great deal of concern among administrators, researchers and policymakers at all levels. The application of social bond theory to help explain this persistent prevalence among young people went a long way toward identifying those who were at most risk of binge drinking, but there remains a profound need for determining the best way to help these young people avoid the adverse outcomes that are known to be associated with binge drinking, including a wide range of health-related risks and institutionalization by becoming involved with the criminal justice system or by becoming a full-blown alcoholic.
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The Wechsler study showed that most of the students in these Greek houses were already heavy binge drinkers before leaving home: they drank heavily in high school. Dowdall asserts, that "prior high school drinking by itself is one of the most important predictors of freshman drinking" (58). Such an observation moves the sole focus of the national obsession with binge drinking's being a problem of higher education to its being a problem for the culture as a whole. It returns the gaze to the fundamental causes for a predisposition for binge drinking mentioned in the previous section. If the student was drinking before college, than the problem is not solely an effect of being at college. The problem lies just as much, if not more, with the parenting of the child. As Dowdall relates, "although there are many good reasons to focus on 'college drinking' as a national health…...

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hole Foods Market is intent upon stimulating the initiatives of workers to do their best and does so by fostering an intense sense of competition and teamwork between small units of employees. hole Foods understands that it is very difficult for workers to feel motivated 'day in and day out' by a large organization and its vision statement. By breaking down the company into teams to oversee specific departments, a great deal of autonomy is invested in each team. As an organic grocery store, hole Foods might be presumed to attract independent spirits. Allowing team members to vote on who can join the team creates a reinforcing mechanism to encourage harmony and a personal investment in the…...

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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…...

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Alcohol
I began my research with an open mind. Alcohol was a huge topic, and I needed to narrow it down and come up with something meaningful to research. As I looked at the different aspects of drinking habits, one issue kept resurfacing that drew my attention. That issue was the long-term effects of drinking on the individual. I was interested in binge drinking, as well as heavy drinking sustained over time. Although I could not come at this from a physiology or medical point-of-view, I did hope to address some of the medical issues that will arise when researching alcohol, such as liver damage and liver disease. Ultimately, I developed a working research question I could use to guide my research and hone the issues. The research question I am currently using to conduct my research is, "How does alcohol as a whole affect the body in short- and long-term…...

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teenage binge drinking. Teenage binge drinking remains a prevalent problem in the United States. As teenagers learn to socialize and transition into adulthood, many may engage in drinking as a type of leisure pursuit. While social drinking contributes to teenage drinking, a large part of it falls under the category of binge drinking. Binge drinking, especially heavy binge drinking can lead to development of alcohol use disorders. While anti-alcohol campaigns have been implemented in the past, some have failed to appeal to youth. This came because of not utilizing social media or including popular youth leaders in such campaigns. Beliefs surrounding binge drinking may be altered due to depression in teens. By examining the outcomes of focus groups and deciding on the messages that would be most effective to help discourage binge drinking, this paper hopes to create a framework from which an anti-binge drinking campaign could form.
Teenage Binge…...

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This means that alcohol is made accessible to underage persons and in this way, they start consuming alcohol at a young age. It is for this reason that the legal drinking age should not be lowered, but actually increased to reduce the chances of it being made available to those who are underage. Increasing the minimum legal drinking age to at least 25 years, like India, will go a long way in ensuring that underage drinking does not take place. Teenagers can be able to access alcohol with the help of their older friends and siblings who may be in college. This will ensure that only responsible adults will have access to alcohol. There have also been cases of increased rates of binge drinking among college age youths and the increase in the minimum legal age for drinking will go a long way in helping preventing this (Kypri et…...

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Etiology of Campus Binge Drinking
Drinking and Alcoholism

A Failed Experiment in Social Control

The consumption of alcohol has always been a focus of government efforts to limits its use, due to the potential for abuse, the financial burden imposed upon social programs, and its association with criminal activity. Between 1920 and 1934 the consumption of alcohol was outlawed in the United States, with the intention of addressing these social problems. During the first year following the enactment of Prohibition, alcohol-related deaths, psychosis, and arrests all declined by 20-40%, but between 1921 and 1927 these measures reveal a sharp increase to near pre-Prohibition levels (Miron and Zwiebel, 1991). By the end of Prohibition, which correlates with the start of the Great Depression, alcohol consumption leveled out at around 60-70% of pre-Prohibition levels despite costing three times as much for a drink. Given the infamous criminal activity that emerged around the illegal manufacture and…...

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hile each of these studies has reported a cardioprotective effect of alcohol, they differ over which type of alcoholic beverage provides the greatest benefit" (634).
Overlooked in many of these studies, though, is the fact that some people who categorize themselves as being one type of drinker compared to another may engage in other activities that are unhealthy from the outset (for instance, beer drinkers may be more likely to also be tobacco users) while others may engage in a wide range of healthy behaviors (for example, wine drinkers may not be smokers and may job or exercise regularly). As McGregor and his colleagues emphasize, "One inherent difficulty within these studies is that in the general population, drinkers distinguished as primarily wine, beer or spirits drinkers tend to differ in other important aspects. If, for example, wine drinkers are found to be healthier, it may be the result of a…...

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Paenting Style Influence on Excess Alcohol Intake Among Jewish Youth
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The health hazads that ae associated with adolescent alcohol use ae well documented, and thee is gowing ecognition among policymakes and clinicians alike that moe needs to be done to addess this public health theat. The pupose of this study will be to examine the effects of diffeent paenting styles on alcohol consumption levels among Jewish college students in the United States. The study daws on attachment theoy, social leaning theoy, and a paenting style model as the main theoetical famewoks to evaluate the effects of diffeent paenting styles on alcohol consumption levels among Jewish adolescents to develop infomed answes to the study's thee guiding eseach questions concening the elationship between peceived paenting style and excess alcohol use of male, Jewish, college students aged 18-26 yeas, the elationship between academic…...

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College Binge Drinking and Violence
According to the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, binge drinking is a pattern of drinking alcohol that brings blood alcohol concentration to 0.08 gram percent or above, and typically corresponds to consuming 5 or more drinks for males or 4 or more drinks for females within about a 2-hour period (College pp).

According to a 1999 Harvard University School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, of the 44% of U.S. college students who admitted to binge drinking during the two weeks before the survey, the majority were white, age 23 or younger, residents of a fraternity or sorority (Fact pp). More than 70,000 college students are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape, while two-thirds report reckless behavior such as unprotected sex, unplanned sex, or driving while drunk (Binge pp). Alcohol poisoning is a severe and potentially fatal physical reaction to an alcohol…...

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