From my experiences as a college student I have seen first hand what the effects of drinking can have on persons in my age group. College-aged binge drinking is a serious problem and one which has a viable solution if the right resources could be pooled together to make a difference. I chose this topic for several reasons. One, I am a college student and the problem of binge drinking is one that I should be aware of and two, I feel that the binge drinking problem among college youth has not been addressed fairly and in a nonbiased manner.
             To first discuss binge drinking, one must know what actually constitutes as "binge drinking". There are so many medical books, journals, and magazines that give several broad and far reaching interpretations of binge drinking. One journal suggest binge drinking is based on drinking over an extended period of time (two days -- according to the source) in which the duration the person becomes intoxicated several times and gives up on usual activities. This definition is probably more correct than the others; however it still isn't complete in its definition. In other research, I came across a source that says binge drinking is the consumption of only five drinks over the course of an evening of eating and socializing. This is clearly is not in conjunction with the initial definition. It does not relate to 'binging'.
             The definition of binge drinking also is different from gender-to-gender. Some have expanded their definition to focus on females. They say that the consumption of four or more drinks at any occasion constitutes as binge drinking. There are also major flaws associated with this definition. Going by what they claim to be "binge drinking", a woman who attends a dinner and has a few drinks over the course of the meal and then two more throughout the course of the evening (4-5 hrs.) would be classified as "binge drinking", even though she was ...