Young Adults & Binge Drinking
Do you remember when you were young and the greatest thing was to go and get a six-pack and try to drink it as fast as you could? No one ever even thought of the consequences of doing such a thing. Nothing has really changed in our society with teens and drinking. The invention of drinking games has often taken on a new problem with binge drinking.
If you believe that this problem is decreasing, it actually is not. Drinking itself, has declined, but the binge drinking has not. Parents are actually purchasing % breathalyzers to monitor their own children. Teenagers do not realize that a severe consequence of over indulgence in alcohol can cause alcohol poisoning which can result in death. In a recent study on binge drinking in teens, it was noted that almost all the drinking that is done by adolescents is in the form of binge drinking. Alcohol poisoning occurs because our system can only get rid of the alcohol in a certain amount of time. When binge drinking, the concentration in the blood becomes extremely high.
The ramifications of binge drinking are severe. An insurmountable amount of teen deaths are related to binge drinking. There has become an increasing amount of motor vehicle accidents with teens and drinking. (Remember the great percentage of teens who drink are binge drinkers).
Research shows that the most probable three highest causes of death in adolescents is motor vehicle accidents, murders and suicides – - and all three of them have a large percentage surrounding alcohol. A large percentage of your adult alcoholics today were drinking before the age of 19.
While not all of the above are related to binge drinking, many are. Remember, the majority of teens who drink engage in binge drinking.
The contention is that health issues can be attributed to over indulgence in alcohol. Breathing problems, the chronic hangover (nausea, vomiting), seizures, alcohol poisoning, which can lead to coma and even result in death. Alcohol has been known to cause liver problems such as cirrhosis, major cardiovascular disease and neurological disorders.
With teens experimenting with drugs or even some over-the-counter medications will cause grave health problems when mixed with alcohol.
There is a lot of peer pressure with the binge drinking and whereas some teens at times use good judgment, when in a crowd where the binge drinking games are taking place, the end result is usually not so good. They do not realize the risk they take when they overconsume alcohol in quick and deliberate quantities.
Some schools are taking issues with drinking coming to sporting events or even school dances. These schools warn the teens that they will be using % keyword2% to test students before entering such events.
% breathalyzers are a preventative measure being taken, but we must educate our youth on the hazards of drinking. The assumption with teens as is the same assumption with some alcoholics is that if they don’t do it every day, what is the harm? Also, one issue is that because adults do it, then they do not see any harm in doing it themselves.
If perhaps we educate the teens and show them how binge drinking at parties and some of the games played has caused deaths in young people, some of who may be your friend, perhaps that will help. Not only educating them but presenting them with other options are ways of letting them see that there is more to having fun than drinking or doing drugs. In the meantime, parents following through with making sure that parties that their children go to have supervision, schools using a % keyword1% to test, and staying on top of the situation can help these teens better understand that what starts out as fun, could possibly become a grave situation.
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