Causes
1. Binge drinking problems result from social environment
Social environment is one of the causes of binge drinking for teenagers in this time. It because most of teenagers used binge drinking for fun, alleviate reticence and act insane because their friends are also drinking, to build up confidence, to celebrate and the most important is too socialise. Additionally, some girls are binge drinking to hold on with the boys. “Women are drinking larger amounts of alcohol and drinking it more frequently, suggesting the alcohol consumption gender gap between men and women is closing,” explains researcher Tanya Chikritzhs of the National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University.
2. Culture causes binge drinking
Parents who contentedly provide alcohol for their selves at home can be an instance for the children to imitate consuming alcohol. They also allow their children to have a drink. Some parents believe that is a part of growing up for their children. According to Joshua Blake from The Age itpro, it happens because people assume that binge drinking as a part of national identity and culture in Australia.
3. Friend of the same age gives rise to binge drinking problems
For teenagers, binge drinking is such a group activity to keep warm with each other and to increase the solidarity of friendship. It may be extremely tough to refuse for joining that activity for them because some teenagers claim if their friend does not get drunk and party together when there is an event are not solid in a friendship. Joshua Blake asserts, “We have created a culture where young people who do not get drunk and party hard on a regular basis are considered abnormal”.
4. Technological development caused binge drinking
Alcohol companies spend ample value of money to advertise their product and encourage young people to use their products. The companies also use some celebrities as their role model to promote their products and equate as normal glamour attitudes of celebrity events and their daily life. For instance Justin Bieber, most teenagers nowadays know who is Justin, he is a singer and his life is always glamour. According to his song, Justin always party all the time and drink alcohol to have fun with his friends and his video clip always supported with some of alcohol. One of his songs is “Sorry” in year 2016.
5. Family can caused binge drinking for teenagers
Lack of parent attention can be the main cause in binge drinking for the children. For parent who have children on early teen years it will be a big problem if they do not have enough time to control their children and never give them interpretation about the risk of consuming alcohol. Their children will begin consuming alcohol in their life. According to National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, “When the relationship between a parent and teen is full of conflict or is very distant, the teen is more likely to use alcohol and to develop drinking-related problems”.
Effects
1. The effects of alcohol on body
1.1 According to Better Health Chanel, 2015, if there is much alcohol in the bloodstream it might affect for their body for instance Brain Injury, Heart Disease, Blood Pressure, and Shortness of Breath and Cardiac Failure. Children might have these problems because binge drinking is consuming huge variety of alcohol per single day and it does not meet with the standard drink quantity. Moreover, skin problems are also one of the effects on body such as an intently red face because the blood vessels are increasing. This occurs because consumption of alcohol can make the adjustment of vascular control in the brain decreasing.
2. Alcohol can cause poisoning, coma, and death
The surveys conducted by Australian Centres for Disease Control and Prevention shows that alcohol poisoning death are the most common for men and adults in the middle aged. 76% of men are consuming alcohol more than women. Furthermore, an alcoholic might die because of liver disease, cancer, hepatitis and syndrome.
3. Binge drinking problems threats to nutrition
Alcohol can cause damage for structure and function of the cells because alcohol does not have any protein, vitamins, or minerals. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the body needs certain nutrition to work properly. Otherwise it can cause health problems. People who abuse alcohol in wrong way will have malnutrition.
4. Legal and financial difficulties
Alcohol can cause for people economic and social cost because a person who get drunk they might devastate some property on the road so they need to spend money on prevention and law administration. Moreover, binge drinking also can provides criminal conduct such as sexual assault, attack of police, and an accident while driving the car.
According to WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol, “Alcohol consumption can have adverse social and economic effects on the individual drinker, the drinker’s immediate environment and society as a whole,” they added, “It has an impact on society as a whole in terms of resources required for criminal justice”.
Current Solution Policies for Binge Drinking
1. The Counsil of Australian Government (COAG) asked the Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy to report due to reduce binge drinking and also connecting to closing hours. The responsibility to young customers and put the food standard on the package alcohol to warning the drinker’s alcohol is not good for their health (Australian Government, 2008).
2. ACT policing and ACT Ambulance services are providing $150,000 to Catholic Care Canberra & Goulburn in Canberra which will be used to support and reduce binge drinking for teenagers (Canberra, 2010).
3. In 2010, the Government dedicated more than $50 million over 2010-11 to 2013-14 to extend the National Binge Drinking Strategy. The enlargement of the NBDS already given to the Australian National Preventive Health Agency.
Recommended Solution
First of all, people should change their social norms to make harder young people to get alcohol. By that the drinkers will be less. Some communities need to make the availability of alcohol fewer by raising the price of the alcohol and reducing the number of places that provide alcohol. If the communities keep consistent to reducing the availability of alcohol, the consuming of alcohol for underage will decrease.
Secondly, the Government should diminish the advertising of alcohol because teenager’s decision of drinking is impressionable due to advertising on TV. Education about alcohol can help young people to decrease consuming alcohol. Some schools should give their student knowledge about the risk of consuming alcohol for their health. Alcohol education can raise awareness for teenagers for consuming alcohol. The Government also should make new guidance and adjust assertive for drinker’s punishment to reduce harms causes by alcohol.
Finally, the most important role to reduce the consuming of alcohol is attention for their parents. Some parents should be consistent about enforcing rules for their children and do not provide alcohol at home. They need to give more responsibility for their children and try to control them about their social life.
Conclusion
In conclusion, there are numerous binges drinking in teenagers nowadays. Consuming alcohol is unacceptable for the body, alcohol can gives some damage for Body Organs, Poisoning, Coma, Death, Poor Nutrition, and Legal and Financial Difficulties. Consuming alcohol causes social Environment, Culture, Technology, Friends of the Same Age and Family of the teenagers. To reduce of consuming alcohol in teenagers are required some important role from the government, parents, and some communities. Government should make new guidance and adjust assertive punishment to reduce the consumption of alcohol for teenager whereas parents also should control their children and do not provide alcohol at home. Young children also should have some education about the risk of consuming alcohol.