What Are The Binge Drinking Statistics?

By Jeff Stevens

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Binge drinking is when men have more than 5 drinks in one sitting and girls have more than four drinks in one sitting. The binge drinking statistics are scary.

image: old alcoholic man drinking beer Binge drinking is most common in high school and college aged people. In fact nearly 51% of all college males have binged drank and nearly 40% of all female students have done it also. All in all, nearly 42% of all college students have reported that they binge drink.

Statistics also show that on nearly any college campus, 70% of the student body participates in binge drinking. That is more than half of the student body and out of that 70% nearly half of them binge more than once a week.

Nearly half of the college binge drinkers have five or more alcohol-related problems on campus. They may be caught by campus security, or they may partake in vandalism and other destructive activities.

It is common to see that most binge drinkers are students under the age of 21 and a member of a fraternity or a sorority. Most college binge drinkers state that the reason they drink is due to peer pressure, social status, and academic stress. However almost half of all binge drinkers do so just so they can get drunk.

Individuals who increase their binge drinking from age 18 to 24 and those who consistently binge drink at least once a week during this period may have problems attaining the goals typical of the transition from adolescence to young adulthood (e.g., marriage, educational attainment, employment, and financial independence).

The awful truth though is that nearly 1400 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die each year from binge drinking. The NIAAA estimates that there are nearly 500,000 injuries, 600,000 assaults, and nearly 40,000 cases of unprotected sex as a result of binge drinking.

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On top of that nearly 2.1 million college binge drinkers drive drunk. Imagine that. nearly 2.1 million of our college students are out there driving drunk.

Drinkers who experience blackouts usually drink excessively and too quickly, a combination that results in relatively fast increases in a person's blood alcohol concentration. Due to the fact that an alarming number of college students engage in binge drinking, students who engage in this form of college alcohol abuse may be at increased risk for experiencing blackouts.

When it comes to their academics, nearly 1/3 of binge drinkers fall behind in their school work due to drinking. Think your money is being well spend? How is this statistic for you, college students combined spend nearly 5.5 billion dollars on alcohol a year and a individual student usually spends close to $500 a year on alcohol.

The statistics for high school students are even more troublesome. Almost 89% of high school senior have admitted to trying alcohol at least once, and out of that 89% nearly 30% go on to be binge drinkers. Binge drinking in high school is usually a strong indicator of who will binge drink in college. Alcohol is the third leading cause of death among people between the ages of 15-24.

According to alcohol addiction research statistics, for every ten Americans approximately one individual has current alcohol problems. What are some of these alcohol-related problems? Some people are engaged in a number of different forms of abusive drinking such as binge drinking, excessive "social" drinking, and drinking due to their alcohol addiction.

These statistics as scary as they are are real numbers. Most of the college binge drinkers go on to develop alcoholism years later. Most of us send our children off to college to educate them so they can go on to lead successive lives. Sending them off to college to turn them into alcoholics is the last thing that we want but unfortunately it is what is happening.

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According to another study, since more than 44% of full-time American college students claimed that they involved themselves in binge drinking at least on one occasion in the 30 days prior to the study, and adding the research findings from this study to the results of the above referenced Harvard research study, it can be determined that many of the traffic accidents experienced by college students are the result of binge drinking and other types of alcohol abuse.

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A recent study by the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study discovered that binge drinkers are far more likely to be involved in car accidents than non-binge drinkers. Since more than 44% of full-time American college students reported involvement in binge drinking at least one time during the previous 30-day period, it can be determined that many of the motor vehicle accidents experienced by college students were the result of alcohol abuse such as binge drinking.

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