Binge Drinking Sociology

Society has left an invisible impact on how we perceive the college lifestyle as a whole. This ranges from the belief that all students are sleep deprived from staying up too late to finish their homework. Also the sociological acceptance that college is the place to party and drink every single weekend. Theirs a sociological point of view and how society has played a key part in underage drinking being accepted in college towns. Not just limited to the effects of alcohol on a student’s wellbeing; also, the short term and long term conditions that can arise from binge drinking. Furthermore, some of the legal problems students can get into from possession and being under the influence.

Society plays a key role in the development of our everyday

Once a person takes a drink of either their beer, glass of wine, or a shot of hard liquor, the alcohol enters the blood stream at fast pace. Alcohol is known as a depressant because “it slows the function of the central nervous system and alters a person’s perception, emotion, and movement; vision and hearing” (Responsible party). This controlled substance has a negative connotation for its lack of responsibility. For example, you are at a party and you where the designated driver, but you end up taking a couple of shots with your buddies just so that you loosen up. Alcohol is removed from ones blood system through the process of oxidation, this process primarily happens in the liver, “…A healthy liver oxidizes pure ethanol at the rate of about 1/4 to 1/3 of an ounce per hour, which is less than 1 ounce of hard liquor…” (Responsible Party). If a shot glass usually contains about two to three ounces, it will take someone who took four two ounce shots a total of twenty four hours in total to remove all the ethanol alcohol. But what are the risks associated with drinking, some of the primary risk that can be seen in the first several hours of drinking. The most significant being cognitive function alcohol which, “interferes with the brain’s communication pathways, and can affect the way the brain looks and works” (NIH), being said so many people commit atrocities while impaired. Some of these

Some of the legal consequences for a minor that is intoxicated on our college campus. Colorado State University (CSU) “Strives to provide a safe and secure environment for its faculty, staff, volunteers, and students, and one that promotes the acquisition of knowledge and nurtures the growth of the individual” (Alcohol and drugs 1). Colorado State University is a government funded college meaning that all the state laws apply within the boundaries of the campus. This is included but not limited to any event taking palace on university property, property outside of the jurisdiction of university control. According to CSU alcohol and drug policy the definition of alcohol or an alcoholic beverage is “any fermented liquor, such as wine, beer, or distilled spirit contains ethyl alcohol, or ethanol as an intoxicating agent, and any product or substance containing alcohol” (Alcohol and Drugs 2). The university makes it very clear that there is a zero tolerance policy if someone is believed to be under the influence