Why Colleges Haven’t Stopped Binge Drinking/ A Systematic Review of Interventions Aimed at Reducing Binge Drinking among College Students
The topic binge drinking isn’t just see in adults, it is also seen in teenagers specifically those who are attending college. The issue with binge drinking is that it has now reached the hands of students in college who don’t know how to handle such a substance. Binge drinking has has it downside to students in colleges, such as, death, injuries, sexual assault, as well as suffering in academic performance. In order to solve this problem 17 millions of dollars were invested in a projected hosted by the “American Medical Association,” as well as friends, parents, media, and face-to-face counseling are methods that could solve the problem. Overall, the 17 millions that went towards the project didn’t seem to work: half the college didn’t try much of anything, and the other half said it as “significant although small,” but the other methods such as friends, parents, media, and face-to-face counseling helped reduced binge drinking both in women and men. In conclusion, both articles were discussing how to reduce binge drinking in college students some methods seemed to work, and some seemed to fall down the drain.
Summary Of Popular Press Article
The major issue in the United States is college drinking. Beth McMurtrie (2014) article said: 1,800 students die every year of alcohol-related causes. An additional 600,000 are injured while drunk, and nearly 100,000 become victims of alcohol-influenced sexual assaults. One in four say their academic performance has suffered from drinking (p.1) Beth’s article believed that colleges were reluctant to get drinking in control, or either they weren’t probably funded or had the right equipment, but despite their inner issues the author believed that college administrator or presidents could change the environment, but officials always looked the other way. The author believed that kids won’t change their behavior towards binge drinking just because programs asked them to stop or showed them consequences. As well, as an incident can happen and it will be a one day impact, and still not changed their opinion, Beth McMurtrie (2014) said in the article: The message isn’t what changes the behavior. Enforcement changes the behavior. pg (2) Overall, colleges tried to make improvements but of course there were setbacks that affected the changes. Many attempts were made, Jim Yong Kim was another attempt to bring the issue to other people’s attention, but when he left his Dartmouth position to work at the bank, the issue was no longer in the spotlight. Beth McMurtrie (2014) said in the article: many educators are resistant to the idea of policing students. They would prefer to treat them as young adults who can make good choices with the right motivation. pg (6) Yet, Traci L. Toomey (2014) quote from the article: as if somehow magically they’d do a great job. She backfires to that statement by saying the following statement. But advice coming from students is that there has to be a stricter punishment would be the only way to solve the issue. Any who, people believe the only way binge drinking can stop is sexual assault. Sexual assault has a lot of correlation with alcohol so they hope their policies in sexual assault can make a change.
Summary of Empirical Article
The empirical is the problem solver of binge drinking. In 2012, 9.3 million reported binge drinking from ages 12-20, and 37 percent of college students said they’ve had multiple drinks in a 30 day time period. Research was found that binge drinking rates are higher in college than those of the same age group who don’t even go to college. The article made a conclusion that binge drinking takes place on Fridays, holidays, and most likely in Greek houses. The magazine, “ Healthy People 2020” claimed that binge drinking will decrease over time. The time period from 2010-2015 seemed to back up this analyzation, eighteen studies evaluated college students; the first study was a web-biased alcohol prevention called “Michigan Prevention and Alcohol Safety for Students” which lasted up to 9 weeks. The second study was a face-to- face counseling that included other four methods, such as, face-to-face BMI, alcohol 101, alcoholEdu, and control assessments, the assessments lasted up to 1, 6, 12 months. Overall, in both studies, reduction in alcohol related decreased. Despite the results were different for both men and women the results of reduction was similar, but what stood out the most from both studies is that these methods could be tried in campuses, Ledetra S. Bridges, MSW, Manoj Sharma, MBBS, MCHES, PHD., FAAHB (2010-2015) “…for reducing alcohol used in college students can be conducted in various areas/settings on college and university campuses.” Therefore, there is a possible way that could reduce binge drinking which has been proven by the methods in this article.
Synthesis
Overall both articles discuss the concept about binge drinking they both agree that it’s a major issue that has to be addressed in order to make changes. The press and empirical article both seemed to come to the conclusion on the results that binge drinking can cause: Beth McMurtrie (2014) 1800 students die every year of alcohol-related causes. An additional 600,000 are injured while drunk, nearly 100,000 become victims of alcohol influenced sexual assaults. One in four say their academic performance has suffered from drinking. pg (1) Ledetra S. Bridges, MSW, Manoj Sharma, MBBS, MCHES, PHD., FAAHB (2010-2015) The consumption of alcohol results in many health and safety concerns that include personal, social and economic consequences for individuals, their families, communities, and the nation……,1,825 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die from alcohol related unintentional injuries, 3,360,00 students between the ages 18-24 encounter assaults by another student who has been drinking alcohol. pg (26,27) The articles agree that consumers like college students harm one another when they have possession of alcohol, and statics agree. The popular press report seemed to be very clear on its point of view in binge drinking, it stated why the topic binge drinking is important, what the problem was, what were some solutions that could reduce binge drinking in college students, what were the results of certain methods that were tried, and of course they included their opinion on why binge drinking hasn’t been reduced, as well as attacking administrators in their poor job in being effective in campuses. The media’s report was very straightforward in what could resolve the issue of binge drinking, the media also stated that all methods tried on college students could be used and enforced in campuses. The media report gave a lot of statistics on what methods worked,as well as comparing and contrasting women and men observations in binge drinking. Overall the media wasn’t bias, the report was not in favor of any sides, so the article was very straightforward with a lot of studies and observations. Despite the limitations and some studies not working.