Binge Drinking

             Most people have done it once in their life; we could say the person drank too much or while partying had a few too many, but across America the most serious drug problem for college students is binge drinking. Despite excuses, college students are abusing alcohol in the form of binge drinking. Up to 43% of college students binge drink within a 2-week period of time. Per pressure might be what starts the beginning of binge drinking, but when college students turn social drinking into the goal of getting drunk it becomes a major problem and now an epidemic. Binge drinking is hard to define, since alcoholic drinks are a part of almost every culture. In America, if a person drinks more then five drinks, or 70 grams of ethanol, per occasion it is considered a binge. Two or more binges in a 2-week period are regarded as frequent binging. The term binge was made to classify alcoholics into separate groups according to severity of the abuse. While studying alcoholics, psychologist a!
             nd scientists decided to classify the binge drinker as a different type of alcoholic. The most common type of alcoholic is one who drinks everyday and become irritated when alcohol is not present when craved; the binge drinker drinks less often, but has the expressed goal of drinking to become drunk at least twice in a month.
             College students maybe responsible and not all are binge drinkers, but the pressures to drink and the relief of stress that drinking brings on is a huge temptation. People drink alcohol for many reasons in different societies. Most commonly there is social drinking where the person is having one or two glasses at dinner or a party. Alcohol is frequently used for religious ceremonies during communion or a baptism or it can be used in cooking. The people who binge do it usually for the same reasons; the most common reason is to get drunk. While intoxicated students feel a variety of emotions, higher confidence, happiness, sad
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