hing from her. With the inability to make the right decision, the girl ends up doing something very regretful. Sometimes with this unplanned sex the girl might end up pregnant, or with a sexually transmitted disease, like AIDS, or Herpes. These transmitted diseases go for guys also.To try and help the decrease of college students binge drinking, colleges have courses on the healths and risks of binging. Some colleges offer free videos every night showing true stories of students at parties who have been drinking and the effects of binge drinking. These videos are shown in hopes to set an example to the other students on what could happen to you if you decide to binge drink. Some colleges dont allow drinking in dorms, fraternities or on campus at all. There are also therapists on campus for students who admit to having a problem and want to get over it. If someone doesnt think they have a problem, they are unlikely to listen to the messages directed at people who have the problem. (Henry Wechsler) The students who dont admit to having a problem consider themselves to be moderate drinkers. Therefore dont go to a therapist or any classes about binge drinking. Students who do go to a therapist blame their binge drinking on academic pressures and peer pressures. Still schools are finding that there is no quick way to curb binge drinking. Florida education officials decided to crack down on drinking, but just two weeks later a drunk, unconscious fraternity member was taken to the hospital, and another was found partially clothed, tied to a tree. Though the attempts to decrease the amount of binge drinking does work in some colleges, the amount of binge drinkers increase or remain the same in other colleges. A survey of 14,000 students at 119 colleges found that the number of students abstaining from alcohol increased from 15 percent in 1993 to 19 percent last year.The causes and effects of Binge drinking by college students involve deat...
