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Why is binge drinking bad and should it be allowed on campus?

Why is binge drinking bad and should it be allowed on campus? . By Tommy Lee. Binge drinking is bad for your health and should not be allowed on a college campus. What is binge drinking?. Heavy and consistent drinking Five or more drinks in a row in a certain amount of time.

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Why is binge drinking bad and should it be allowed on campus?

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  1. Why is binge drinking bad and should it be allowed on campus? By Tommy Lee

  2. Binge drinking is bad for your health and should not be allowed on a college campus.

  3. What is binge drinking? • Heavy and consistent drinking • Five or more drinks in a row in a certain amount of time

  4. Why do people binge drink? • They are curious • They are trying to impress friends • They make look at it as a way to reduce stress

  5. What are the risks of binge drinking? • Alcohol poisoning • Memory lapses • Mood changes • death

  6. The risk of binge drinking an getting alcohol poisoning • Extreme confusion • Inability to be awakened • Vomiting and seizures • Slow breathing • Death

  7. Mental health • Binge drinkers have a harder time in schools • It disrupts sleep patterns • Effects some people personality

  8. Binge drinking • Approximately 92% of U.S. adults have reported they have binge drank • About 75% of the alcohol consumed each year is in the form of binge drinking

  9. Health problems • Unintentional injuries • Intentional injuries • Alcohol poisoning • Liver failure

  10. Women and binge drinking • Statewide the figures show 17.2% of women try binge drinking • 6.6% is in western new York

  11. Effects on the brain • Alters the thickness in grey matter • Early micro-structural damage • Kills brain cells • Slows learning abilities

  12. Effects on the nervous system • Makes your reaction slower • You feel less pain • Slurs your speech • Loosens your grip

  13. College kids and binge drinking • They take it to an extreme • They do it to try and fit in • They think its cool and funny

  14. Binge drinking on campus • Became the drug of choice on campus • They are drinking to get drunk • Alcohol is forty percent of school problems

  15. Binge drinking continued • Binge drinking in college kids leads to sexual aggression higher an makes women more prone to rape • Alcohol use is not one but can be multiple aggressions like criminal activity, sexual activity, underage drinking

  16. Co-eds and binge drinking • 42 percent of students in coed housing reported binge drinking on a weekly basis • Only 18 percent of students in gender-specific housing reported binge drinking weekly

  17. Binge drinking makes you do stupid things.

  18. Binge drinking may cause miscarriages

  19. Binge drinking can and will kill you

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