High Risk Drinking & College Students

In recent years, heavy drinking among college students is becoming a serious social phenomenon. It results in a lot of social problems and serious influence in the college.

College students are the special social group because their high culture quality, but they have the disadvantages at the same time, and they are a lack of strong self-control ability. In other words, they can be influenced by bad habit easily. Especially the heavy drinking frequently happened in the college, and it makes the troubles for the environment of college and society. In the website about National Institutes of Health: college Drink (http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/special-populations-co-occurring-disorders/college-drinking), it is easy to find that college drinking brings a lot of problems, and the data shows that many college students will drink in a different situation, even both the boys and girls, the number of them is staggering. For students, there are many reasons to have a drink, for example, birthday, party and love. There is no doubt that heavy drink can bring many high risks. In this website, people can find the different risks such as death, assault, sexual, abuse, injury, academic problems, health problems and so on. These are the problems which frequently happen in students’ daily life, and they all should be pay attention not only to students but also by the whole society.

High-risk drinking impacts on college students deeply. There are several aspects can explain this relationship. Firstly, the damage to health. There is no doubt that drinking can bring a lot of health problems. A lot of clinical trials show that the ethyl alcohol in wine can injure the liver directly and seriously. A heavy drink can cause a great number of liver cells death. If someone drinks for a long time, his liver will change to alcohol liver. What’s more, people always read news about the heavy drinking caused the death of drinkers who like drinking for a long time. It doesn’t exaggerate the high risk to scare people, and the reality will teach drinkers a lesson. So college students should pay attention to the risk and remember the lessons because they are young. Secondly, high-risk drinking will cause the bad influence on the study. Every student knows that their main task in college is study. Drinking influences the normal study a lot. Drinking can cause the abnormal excitatory state, and students can’t control themselves well when they are in this state. They can’t have the class and even injure others or themselves. On the other hand, drinking results in the memory loss and decrease the learning efficiency. If the students always drink and have the sense of dependent on the wine, it will be difficult to quit in a short time. They will feel weak and can’t concentrate on study. Thirdly, the students with high-risk drinking can result in many social problems. There is no doubt that high-risk drinking can cause the traffic accident because students will lose their self-control after they have a drink, of course, they can’t control their cars well. Another aspect is that drinking will reduce the social responsibility of young students and even cause the negative emotion. It is well-known that drinking becomes the “social poison” gradually because the high pressure of life or other reasons. It makes many people commit crimes. College students are young people, and different fresh things attract them. So few of them commit crimes with the help of wine.

Therefore, high-risk drinking and college students have a close relationship in a way. Students should understand that drinking can bring not only the happiness and courage but also the damage and regret. Treat drinking correctly is an important thing during the college life.