COLLEGES REGULATION

How Do The Colleges Differ In Their Regulation Of Alcohol And Other Intoxicating Substances?

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How Do The Colleges Differ In Their Regulation Of Alcohol And Other Intoxicating Substances?

Introduction

Fact, one in three eighteen to twenty-four year old persons admitted into emergency rooms for serious injuries are intoxicated. Fact, a twelve-ounce bottle of beer has the same amount of alcohol as a standard shot of eighty-proof liquor mixed or straight as well as a five ounce glass of wine. Fact, rates of binge drinking are increasing alarmingly. When alcohol and college students are near, they are contributing to the need for college anti-alcohol social programs, strict laws and regulations, and of course, serious and sometimes fatal injury (Weitzman and Wechsler, 2004). But, what is the major problem and why is it a problem? Increasing rates of alcoholism on college campuses are creating a large number of negative consequences including long term brain damage, long term jail sentences, and extremely long term sleep; six feet under. The main contributing factors to the increasing rates of alcoholism are directly caused by ineffective laws and regulations and the superior power of manipulation from the multi-media.

In most of the United States of America, patrons must be twenty-one years of age to purchase and consume alcohol. However, one strange fact is that at twenty-one years, Americans are considered adults; that is, they are indeed permitted to purchase or consume alcohol. As a responsible government, these regulations in America should be changed. Many would agree that use of alcohol in adult age can destroy academic career of students. A survey has not been done on this particular subject, but my thoughts are that more than eighty percent of eighteen year olds would definitely want to have the drinking age lowered to eighteen based on the grounds that if they are considered adults, they should be permitted to choose whether or not to consume and purchase alcohol (Perkins, DeJong, et al., 2001). Several survey studies have been made by the University of Wisconsin in South Point, Office of Student Health, which has many facts of college students drinking habits from college campuses around the U.S. From one of the Rhode Island College Survey, when students were asked through survey to check all reasons that apply to why they felt the need to drink, more than half answered that they drank simply because they could.

This "because I can, I will" ...