Impact of Drinking on
the Body
We all know
that a long night of drinking makes you feel like hell the next morning. But even after the initial hangover, alcohol
still has negative effects on the body, especially for a sleep-deprived
college, binge drinking college student.
Partying is
one thing most 18-25 year olds can relate to; heavy amounts of drinking,
staying up all night and many other choices that are not beneficial to one’s
health. With this “heavy drinking”
(around five drinks for guys and four for girls) comes many obvious health
problems of which most people are aware of such as, but not limited to: alcohol
poisoning, severe dehydration, and even respiratory depression (slowed down
breathing). Most people are aware of the
potential problems mentioned above but there are even sexual health troubles
which correlate with alcohol use, specifically binge drinking.
Decision
making is something that is easily affected when large amounts of alcohol are
consumed. When one’s mind is impaired by
alcohol, they are more likely to consent to sexual activity, oftentimes without
protection. This leads to all kinds of
diseases and many adolescent’s worst nightmare, teenage pregnancy. Just imagine impregnating/being impregnated
by a complete stranger whom you met drunkenly the night before; it is totally
not worth that. Another factor of bad
decision making is death. I read an
interesting statistic while researching that said “the four leading
injury-related causes of death among youths under the age of 20 are
auto-accidents, homicides, suicides, and drowning” with alcohol being involved
in a high amount of these. So while
there are known problems that come with binge drinking (manifest functionalism)
there are also those problems that people rarely think of (latent
functionalism).
Death may
be an extreme impact on the body because of alcohol but just because it is rare
doesn’t mean it will not happen. Always
be aware of the number of drinks consumed and make sure to drink a glass of
water after every few drinks. Drinking
in college may be the “in” thing to do, but it is always better if it is done
in a responsible manor.
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