Alcohol In College Sports

In my view I agree with Sandee LaMotte because alcohol does have many types of effects including gaining calories, getting heart disease and cancer, diabetes, loss of memory, and the type of mood your in. More specifically, alcohol can damage your body really horribly. For example, “Alcohol weakens our immune systems, making

Many people don't know how to drink responsibly so that could lead to binge drinking. If you drink a lot you will do things you don't want to do, like drink and drive which could possibly kill someone including you. Drinking irresponsibly can lead to violent behavior which could put others at risk. Also for violent behavior and drinking+driving could get you in jail.

Many people do not relize what drink does to you and what you do when your drink can effect you drinking affects your brain and makes it work slower by interfering with the way it works and processes stuff. Drinking affects many people decisions like the time when my aunt and my cuzin what was 7th grade where coming back from a local street dance. When they got into the car my aunt was drunk and drove home but they did not make it home that night they ended up geting into a car accedent what took both of there lifes with it and just because my aunt was drunk and drove home it caused

The risks of drinking alcohol are health issues, your body wouldn’t stay fit if you are drinking too much. Health issues for drinking can be a serious and damageable for you.

On college campuses, the consumption of alcohol amongst undergraduate college students continues to be a maladaptive college health behavior. The recreational use of alcohol effects the student population and the health of the students who excessively drink alcohol. The issue caused many research studies to focus on the effect of alcohol consumption based on being an athlete and non-athlete. This study is important because it provides college campuses with a perspective on alcohol consumption behavior between athletes and non-athletes. Additionally, students who consume alcohol can affect school environment. For example, previous research has suggested athletes are more likely to consume

(Through the years, various programs have been created, to reduce U.S college alcohol abuse. One such program has been created at The University of Rhode Island.) The University of Rhode Island used to be a center for binge drinking, alcohol-related injuries, and even alcohol related deaths. That all changed when the new URI President Emeritus Dr. Robert Carothers, stepped in with a successful strategy called Security On Campus. Dr. Robert Carothers said, “One of the first, and most challenging, steps was keeping alcohol from being served at any event on campus”. They would also end up targeting fraternity’s/ sorority’s and keeping a tight lease on them. Another program they offered to the freshman was free education on the effects of drug

A recent event that showcases that binge drinking is still a problem for many college students at the University of Iowa is the story of one Iowa student during the 2013 football season. Samantha Goudie, who is a twenty-two year old University of Iowa student, was once known as ‘Vodka Samm’ not only around the Iowa City area but nationally. One day in a highly intoxicated state, she tried to jump onto the field during a regular home football game and after quickly being arrested was known around the nation as “The World’s Drunkest College Student.” She was cited for having a blood-alcohol level of .341 percent, which is more than four times the legal driving limit. This event just continued to help solidify the University of Iowa’s out of control party school reputation. However, it did bring light to the serious problem of the students binge drinking and its effects especially during home football games.

I believe that competetive sports are not benifitial for children and adults. Playing competetive sports can lead to having drug abuse problems, serious injurys and being an serious debt.

As an athlete, I wasn’t very aware of the effects of alcohol on my athletic career. But after doing some research I found many reasons why alcohol is something you shouldn’t do as an athlete. Some long term consequences are muscles depleting and losing muscle, a change in sleep cycle, a fat production increase, dehydration, the immune system shuts off, the effects on the brain, and more. All of these are horrible changes and consequences to have if you are a very committed athlete.

It is commonly known that alcohol is currently the most abused drug on college campuses. Colleges today are trying to limit the amount of alcohol consumed by students as well as the use of drugs here at King’s College. I attended the meeting that discussed drugs and alcohol on college campuses. Here we talked about some of the effects that come with the consumption of these products.

According to a study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health, athletes reported more binge drinking, heavier alcohol use, and a greater number of drinking-related harms. Along with these findings, researchers also found that despite athletes drinking heavier than non-athletes, student-athletes displayed greater efforts in alcohol prevention and possessed unique motivations to curb their alcohol consumption. As mentioned before, student-athletes are consistently shown to be an at-risk population among university students. In a journal titled “Protective behavioural strategies and their relationship with negative alcohol consequences among college athletes”, student-athletes participate in greater alcohol consumption as well as experience more negative consequences of alcohol abuse. Within college populations, protective behavioural strategies have been shown to reduce the impact of alcohol-related negative consequences, however not much is known about protective behavioural strategies among the at-risk sub-population of student-athletes. According to this study, protective behavioural strategies did little to increase the distance from alcohol consumption and negative consequences. In conclusion, athletes display greater tendencies to binge drink and show higher numbers of

Alcohol has become commonplace on college campuses, and much of it’s use can be traced back to various peer, parent, and personality influences. For some people, alcohol use begins long before they reach college. During adolescence, alcohol use is largely attributed to the novelty of the activity, but soon other influences quickly encourage increased use (Thompson, Roemer, & Leadbeater, 2015). Once students enter college, unfamiliar environments and peer groups become a large influence on alcohol use. In this setting, alcohol is mainly used in social settings for enjoyment or enhancement. Regardless of individual alcohol habits, research shows a general increase in alcohol use upon entering college (Fairlie, Wood, & Laird, 2012) until the age

A college freshman is someone who is attending their first year of college. That means that they are new on the scene and very susceptible to the various illegal things done at college. The amount of parties at college is staggering and what is being consumed there is not always good. Amongst the amount of drugs there is a large amount of alcohol.

Often, the alcohol will bring out a violent temper and often, alcoholics abuse, physically and mentally, their friends and family. Drinking makes the drinker feel he is more confident. The drinker thinks he is in control, even if a little high, and he might get behind the wheel of his car and go for a drive. Drunk driving is deadly. Hundreds of thousands of people get killed every year due to drunk driving.(Castro 60) Other physical effects of drinking are vomiting, passing out and sometimes, if enough alcohol is consumed over a long enough period of time, or if mixed with other drugs, death.

If you knew that something you were about to do is a lot of fun but it has numerous health risks including possible death, would you still do it? For most people, alcohol is a lot of fun, but most don’t realize the health factors, especially if you are an excessive drinker. Many people die each year from heart disease because they don’t know how to control how much they drink in one sitting. Even more people die each year from drinking and driving, when you consume alcohol your motor skills are heavily impaired and your reaction time is extremely slow therefore if you are drinking and driving there is a high possibility that you could die. Excessive alcohol use is bad for you because it has bad effects on the heart and blood, it kills brain cells, it has serious and sometimes deadly effects on many vital organs in your body, and has many different side effects.