Binge drinking is a major problem on most college campuses. Many people may not think that this is a major problem, but in fact it is. The Harvard School of Public Health did a survey of students from 119 colleges and found some shocking results. 44% of U.S. college students engaged in binge drinking during the two weeks before the survey. Students more likely to binge drink are white, age 23 or younger, and are residents of a fraternity or sorority. If they were binge drinkers in high school, they were three times more likely to binge in college. Over half the binge drinkers, almost one in four students, were frequent binge drinkers, that is, they binged three or more times in a two-week period. While one in five students reported abstaining from drinking alcohol. You may ask why college students do this? The survey found four reasons why students b

Drinking doesn’t just affect the person drinking though. It could affect people around it. An innocent friend could be caught and punishment be forced upon them as well. They could be a good kid and not really realize what is going on, however despite the fact that they never even touched a beer, get in trouble. I feel real strongly towards this fact that drinking affects others. They could be a really nice friend and a good student, and because of the drinking going on and simply just being there, they could be punished. I would feel terrible if they got mixed up in this. I clearly learned from my personal experiences that drinking affects everyone around it, even if they are not doing anything wrong. Some other effects that could be put on another person are: sleep or study interrupted, having to take care of the intoxicated person, being insulted or humiliated and having a serious argument with the intoxicated person.

Drinking in college has many different drawbacks, not just affecting the person drinking; it can also affect friends and other people. One bad thing about drinking is that drinking and partying seems to make most people lazy. This is by far the worst effect that drinking has on someone; it is the worst because laziness can affect so many things pertaining to school. Being lazy can cause a person to miss classes, this will in a short while catch up to that person, getting behind in schoolwork is an incredibly bad thing. I’ve noticed personally that to do well in school one has to do all of their work and keep up in their classes. Another way to miss classes, related to drinking, is the hangovers. This morning after side affect can usually be avoided by dri

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