| Binge drinking is when men have more than 5 drinks in | | | | there are nearly 500,000 injuries, 600,000 assaults, and |
| one sitting and girls have more than four drinks in one | | | | nearly 40,000 cases of unprotected sex as a result of |
| sitting. The binge drinking statistics are scary. Binge | | | | binge drinking. On top of that nearly 2.1 million college |
| drinking is most common in high school and college | | | | binge drinkers drive drunk. Imagine that. nearly 2.1 million |
| aged people. In fact nearly 51% of all college males | | | | of our college students are out there driving drunk. |
| have binged drank and nearly 40% of all female | | | | When it comes to their academics, nearly 1/3 of binge |
| students have done it also. All in all, nearly 42% of all | | | | drinkers fall behind in their school work due to drinking. |
| college students have reported that they binge drink. | | | | Think your money is being well spend? How is this |
| Statistics also show that on nearly any college | | | | statistic for you, college students combined spend |
| campus, 70% of the student body participates in binge | | | | nearly 5.5 billion dollars on alcohol a year and a |
| drinking. That is more than half of the student body | | | | individual student usually spends close to $500 a year |
| and out of that 70% nearly half of them binge more | | | | on alcohol. |
| than once a week. Nearly half of the college binge | | | | The statistics for high school students are even more |
| drinkers have five or more alcohol-related problems on | | | | troublesome. Almost 89% of high school senior have |
| campus. They may be caught by campus security, or | | | | admitted to trying alcohol at least once, and out of that |
| they may partake in vandalism and other destructive | | | | 89% nearly 30% go on to be binge drinkers. Binge |
| activities. | | | | drinking in high school is usually a strong indicator of |
| It is common to see that most binge drinkers are | | | | who will binge drink in college. Alcohol is the third |
| students under the age of 21 and a member of a | | | | leading cause of death among people between the |
| fraternity or a sorority. Most college binge drinkers | | | | ages of 15-24. |
| state that the reason they drink is due to peer | | | | These statistics as scary as they are are real |
| pressure, social status, and academic stress. However | | | | numbers. Most of the college binge drinkers go on to |
| almost half of all binge drinkers do so just so they can | | | | develop alcoholism years later. Most of us send our |
| get drunk. | | | | children off to college to educate them so they can go |
| The awful truth though is that nearly 1400 college | | | | on to lead successive lives. Sending them off to |
| students between the ages of 18 and 24 die each | | | | college to turn them into alcoholics is the last thing that |
| year from binge drinking. The NIAAA estimates that | | | | we want but unfortunately it is what is happening. |