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I wanted to direct this blog post to a specific problem with drinking that has recently been linked to age, and that is binge drinking. According to dictionary.com the definition of binge drinking is the consumption of dangerously large quantities of alcoholic beverages in one session. Binge drinking has become a major issue among college students, and has been linked to many alcohol-related deaths. I have to agree with the idea that many people are binge drinking in college because they are not twenty-one yet, and cannot drink legally. Generally people do not turn twenty-one in college until late in their junior year through their senior year. Through my own experiences, I know that college students that are under age try to drink as much as possible in the shortest amount of time possible in order to get drunk and stay drunk. Students participate in this type of drinking because they know they cannot drink when they go out to dinner or to the club, or whichever public place they are going to, so they “pre-game” before. For anyone that is not familiar with the term “pre-game” it has become a common word to describe the act of drinking before going out.
Binge drinking is a major issue because a person does not realize how trying to drink a lot really fast is going to affect them in the next thirty minutes to an hour. Students try to push each other by taking shot after shot and before they know it, they are already completely drunk. There is an extremely interesting story on cnn.com about a young college boy that died as a result of binge drinking. Ultimately, his fraternity brothers left him on a couch to die by himself because they were scared that they would get in trouble for underage drinking if they would have called 911 for help. In my opinion, I believe that this growing problem could be decreased if the drinking age was lowered to age eighteen, and some sort of alcohol education program was required in high school. My reasons for why I believe this will help decrease the problem and more drinking related information will be posted in my next blog… until then keep posting!
I wanted to direct this blog post to a specific problem with drinking that has recently been linked to age, and that is binge drinking. According to dictionary.com the definition of binge drinking is the consumption of dangerously large quantities of alcoholic beverages in one session. Binge drinking has become a major issue among college students, and has been linked to many alcohol-related deaths. I have to agree with the idea that many people are binge drinking in college because they are not twenty-one yet, and cannot drink legally. Generally people do not turn twenty-one in college until late in their junior year through their senior year. Through my own experiences, I know that college students that are under age try to drink as much as possible in the shortest amount of time possible in order to get drunk and stay drunk. Students participate in this type of drinking because they know they cannot drink when they go out to dinner or to the club, or whichever public place they are going to, so they “pre-game” before. For anyone that is not familiar with the term “pre-game” it has become a common word to describe the act of drinking before going out.
Binge drinking is a major issue because a person does not realize how trying to drink a lot really fast is going to affect them in the next thirty minutes to an hour. Students try to push each other by taking shot after shot and before they know it, they are already completely drunk. There is an extremely interesting story on cnn.com about a young college boy that died as a result of binge drinking. Ultimately, his fraternity brothers left him on a couch to die by himself because they were scared that they would get in trouble for underage drinking if they would have called 911 for help. In my opinion, I believe that this growing problem could be decreased if the drinking age was lowered to age eighteen, and some sort of alcohol education program was required in high school. My reasons for why I believe this will help decrease the problem and more drinking related information will be posted in my next blog… until then keep posting!
I agree with you. The drinking age should be lowered to eighteen. Today, many people in college who are under drink to much at one sitting because of the fact that it is illegal for them to drink. Because of this, it allows for college students to be involved in dangerous situations. If the drinking age was lowered I believe more people would not be involved in dangerous situations.
ReplyDeleteI also think the drinking age should be lowered to 18. Even though many kids drink underage, I think the appeal of binge drinking would decrease dramatically.
ReplyDeleteDo it for the kids!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteResponse to whyhealth and xomissmegannn:
ReplyDeleteThank you guys for you input! I think that many people do not realize how much of an issue binge drinking is. It seems to be that so many more underage drinkers are binge drinking these days because they are not allowed to go to a bar and have a drink. Xomissmegannn, you make a good point that underage drinking is still going to occur not matter what, so maybe if lowering the drinking age does not necessarily lower all underage drinking it is very possible that the rate of binge drinking will go down. I really hope that this is the case because all of the research I have been doing shows that binge drinking is an extremely bad drinking habit and it can lead to negative consequences including alcoholism.