College Students’ Exposure to Alcohol Drinking Drinking alcoholic beverages among college students is widely common nowadays in this generation. Several reasons can be recognized why students drink alcohol. According to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Inc, (2016), improving self-confidence, altering own identity (to adapt), curiosity, lack of parental advice, problems of daily living, running away from family dilemma, experiencing academic difficulty and other mental-related problems drive the teenagers to drink alcohol. Considering the reasons stated above, these can be some of the many ways how young people manage with their personal, emotional and social problems that they are experiencing.
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Having a negative impact to one’s education because of doing such immoral thing is not reasonable. This leads to the impression that college students who are exposed to frequent drinking of alcoholic beverages are negatively affected on their academic performance mainly caused by intoxication.
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According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, peer pressure is defined as “a feeling that one must do the same things as other people of one's age and social group in order to be liked or respected by them.” Due to a student’s desire to be in the group, peer pressure among college students especially those freshmen students is formidable where drinking alcoholic beverages can be done (Palmeri, 2016). Newly enrolled students in college, also known to be the freshmen, are those people who are in urge of meeting up new people or being part of a certain group. And because of that, those freshmen will adapt the environment, habit and behavior of the group in order to become part of it, even if it means drinking