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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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