How Does Binge Drinking Affect Society

These days there are a number of social issues in the community, such as drug abuse, teenage pregnancy and alcohol abuse. Alcohol abuse is rampant in today’s society, Australian Drug Foundation states that, “Alcohol is the most widely used psychoactive, or mood-changing, recreational drug in Australia.”(Healey, 2002, p. 11). Underage drinking and binge drinking are some of the problems associated with alcohol abuse.

(Alcohol and Public Health,2017) study found the following: Binge drinking is a serious but preventable public health problem.

The prevalence of binge drinking in 2012 for females was in the middle-performing 50% for all counties with 8.7% of females engaging in binge drinking, while the prevalence of binge drinking in 2012 for males was in the middle-performing 50% for all counties with 24.6% of males engaging in binge drinking. To compare, the national average in 2012 was 12.4% for females and 24.5% for males. The change from 2002 to 2012 for females was in the best-performing 25% of all counties while the change for males was in the middle-performing 50%, with females experiencing a decrease of 0.3 percentage points and males experiencing an increase of 0 percentage points. To compare with the national average, females had an increase of 1.6 percentage points and males had an

The results collected from the survey were analysed to help identify the target groups’ behaviours, attitudes and beliefs on the Australian cultural norms of drinking and what they think a binge drinker is. There were 15 questions within the survey, each one was analysed and then categorised into three sections to help construct statements about

First of all, binge drinking has been a problem for some time now. It has climbed over the past few years, capturing more attention from the media. A study

Binge drinking is one of the worst social behaviours as it starts at a young age and that is where the obsession starts, as an Australia study shows that 2,00 kids that have a sip of alcohol when they are young due to their parents. This can lead to future binge drinking by the time they are 15 to 16 years old. It has been estimated that 2,643 Australians die due to binge drinking each year. Some of the effects of binge drinking can cause are a loss of control of brain function, less aware of your surroundings as well as loss of your tolerance levels so they drink more and more. This is why binge drinking is an unsafe social behaviour.

Australia needs to wake up and realize that society is influencing us to develop the binge culture. Thus, making binge drinking into a social issue. There is a sharp increase of binge drinking in the younger generation with the statistics showing 86.2% of Australian teenagers aged 14-18 years have consumed alcohol. The underage youth are stating that their parents are allowing it, that it is easy to get the alcohol, drinking’s cheaper and that they are getting highly influenced seeing the older (legal aged) youth drinking. Consequently, the younger youth cannot comprehend why they cannot drink

The Foundation for a Drug Free World (2017) determines that binge drinking is the action of ingesting high volumes of alcohol in a short period of time, which can be usually outlined as five or more drinks for a man, and four or more drinks for a woman in one sitting.The foundation (2017) also states that alcohol is the leading cause of death in teenagers internationally, when compared to all other drugs combined. With 32% of youth binge drinkers being illicit substance users as well.

Binge drinking is the consumption of an excessive amount of alcohol in a short period of time, consuming when teens drink is, “’ to get drunk as possible, as quickly and cheaply as possible.”’ (Listfield). Teens are gaining a standard for hard liquor. “’Hard Liquor is increasingly replacing beer in drinking games. (Listfield) ‘“Kids easily drink seven or eight shots at a time.”’ (qtd by Gabby). Binge drinking is very common in teenagers. Teenagers believe the more you drink, the faster you get drunk and

Chosen Approach We will be choosing two approaches and combining them together to educate the participants on binge drinking and to achieve our aims of changing the mind-sets of the individuals on binge drinking. We have chosen to combine both the educational and fear approaches together as we think that individually they won’t be as successful at fulfilling our aim compared to merging them together. An advantage of the educational approach is that it involves giving information to individuals on the effects that binge drinking has not only on your health but on the different types of body parts. It also involves using visual aids to explain to the individuals this information.

After researching ‘what is binge drinking’ I found that it is the consumption of a large amount of alcohol on a single occasion or drinking at a constant rate over a number of days or even weeks. Binge drinking is risky business. The powerful liquid known as alcohol has major effects on a person. Alcohol has the ability to wreck a person’s life and change it permanently. Alcohol impairs judgement making it easy for someone to do or say something that he or she will regret. For a male to binge drink he has to drink 5 or more standard drinks in a 2 hour period. For a female it is only 4 or more standard drinks in a 2 hour period. This could vary of the weight and age of the person. When conducting my survey I asked the participants how many drinks they believe classified as binge drinking.

According to Olsson et al. (2017), problematic alcohol use is both dangerous and addictive as it affects the brain functions by producing a euphoric effect, such as a sense of happiness and excitement. VicHealth (2017) outline that alcohol is heavily promoted and socially accepted in Australian culture nowadays. As a result, people are misusing alcohol in the course of socialising and celebrating events by binge drinking. This binge drinking culture is becoming a social and economic issue in Australia (Jones, Gordon, & Andrews, 2016; Miller et al., 2016; Dietze,Wright, & Lim, 2016). The National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA, 2017) conclude that the recommended level of alcohol is 30 ml for pure alcohol and 425 ml

Firstly, binge alcohol drinking is ongoing and pervasive issue among Australian adolescents ( Dengenhardt et al, 2013, P.1). Generally, adolescents tend to drink less frequently than adults drinkers but they have a tendency for excessive and binge drinks (Wechsler and Nelson, 2010, p.985).

Apart from being the most common form of excessive alcohol consumption, binge drinking is defined as a blood alcohol level of .08 g/dL usually achieved by consuming 5 or more drinks for men and 4 or more drinks for women within two hours (CDC, 2016). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, binge drinking is associated with many health problems. Some of the top health problems include unintentional injuries such as car crashes, falls, burns, and drowning (CDC, 2015). Others include

Underage drinking is becoming a serious social issue in modern Australia; with 90% of Australian teenagers over 14 that have tried alcohol at least once. Estimates also suggest that half of Australia’s teenagers drink alcohol on a weekly basis. Underage drinking can cause drink driving and unsafe sex if it is misused. Australia seems to be fond of this drug, and find it to be socially acceptable although it is causing the amount of teenage deaths to rise rapidly due to misuse. Heavy use of Alcohol can also cause health issues later on in the lives of teens that are drinking alcohol. It is hard for parents to be able to prevent their teenagers from consuming and experimenting with alcohol, but they can at least kindly encourage their