The Effects Of Binge Drinking On College - 913 Words

One of my youth pastors told the teens at church on a Wednesday night, â€Å"Don’t start a habit in your younger years that is going to control the way you live your adult years .† Whenever I heard this statement, I thought of teens binge drinking in college. College drinking has become a major issue for people under the age of twenty- one. Binge drinking becomes addicting, especially for people under the age of twenty-one. Understanding the problem and consequences of binge drinking will help to show that lowering the drinking age will not help the problem. Binge drinking in college is when students consume an excessive amount of alcohol in a short period of time. This can happen because of parties, meeting new friends, even being in a†¦show more content†¦Along with binge drinking comes consequences. The most common cause for deaths in car accidents is drinking and driving. In Roan’s book, Roan states, â€Å"In 1984, a federal standard was established setting the minimum legal drinking age at 21. Since then, traffic fatalities among drivers ages 18 to 20 have fallen by an estimated 13%, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration† (Roan ). This statistic is one that shows how lowering the legal drinking age would not solve the problem of binge drinking in college. Most people that are freshman in college start school at 18 or 19. As stated in the previous paragraph, these freshman attend parties or events with older people. These students can be 21 or older and be able to buy alcohol. This ca n lead to underage drinking. If a student does not live on campus, he or she will have to drive back to their house. They can be giving friends a ride to wherever they need to go, or just driving around goofing off. If they have had an excessive amount of alcohol, they can be endangering the lives of themselves, their friends’ lives, and other people on the road. If they were to have a car accident, they could kill the other people in the cars involved. They can then be charged with murder. Another consequence of binge drinking is alcohol-related death. In the same article by Roan, he talks about a