The glorification of drinking games on college campuses has had catastrophic effects for college students between the ages of eighteen to twenty-one. Incoming college freshman should especially be educated on how to handle alcohol and the potential harms of college drinking games. can lead to binge drinking, which in turn can lead to physical and mental health risks. This is an important topic to be discussed because students need to learn how much alcohol is really too much and the warning signs
On college campuses across the United States, a drinking game involves consuming alcoholic drinks as a penalty of losing a game. Something important to recognize about drinking games is that there is no standard definition of what a drinking game should be. ach generation the youth makes their own definition and creates the "normative" as time progresses but there is no precise Webster dictionary definition. Drinking games have always been around, even traced back all the way to Ancient Greeks. Historians found that Greek philosopher Plato composed a text called Plato's Symposium which in brief terms was about a party where a group of men played a
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They test the person's endurance to how much they can drink and their skill at the game. The better your skill, the less you drink and vice versa. In modern day, a drinking game occurs alongside other drinking activities such as "pregaming", spring break vacations, music festivals, and other holidays. At these events the peer pressure is unmeasurable, these college students want to let go of stress, they want to fit in, they want to bond with other young adults. College freshman are placed in a new atmosphere, it is more likely that they are more willing to let go and participate in more dangerous activities. With all these factors there is also a higher risk of binge drinking while participating in drinking