Drinking and Drugs in College

After graduating from almost innocent high school under parents care, we go straight to college in two months looking for that freedom everybody talks about. At college, we get the freedom of deciding when to wake up, which class should we attend or miss, when to do homework, when to eat and how much should we eat. Of course, we also decide the biggest factor out there, when should we party and how hard should we drink which has it’s side effects to our focus in college. Sometimes when drinking gets a little old for some of us, we take interest in an entirely different world like drugs. When I say drugs I mean marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, and many more. Knowing that drugs and drinking is a huge problem in universities today, there are many articles that cover those kind of stories when somebody has drank themselves to death, or snorted so much that they became nobody in the education area in college that they left school. As for drinking, many college students drink and there’s no question about that, but the question is, are they drinking to get drunk and are they binge drinkers? Women who consume more than four drinks in a row are drinking too much than their bodies can handle, they will be considered binge drinkers. As for men, they should only consume five drinks or less, if not binge drinkers is what they are.


In 1993, sixteen years ago, from 140 colleges in 40 states the statistics came down to 44% of the students binged. Sixteen years later, the numbers have increased…but how much? It has increased dramatically from Columbia because compared from 1993 to 1977, more than triple the 10 percent. Drinking doesn’t only bring danger to your body; it brings danger to you and your schoolwork. 90% of campus violence is related to alcohol and 80% of date rape incident had men who were drinking. The worse part is 55% of the date rape victims had also been drinking during the incident. As for drug users, there was an article that explained a person’s result in drugs might be relying on where their interest in religion lays. Students who are very deep in religion are more likely to try drugs in all classes of drugs. While students who have no interest in religion are more likely to try marijuana, amphetamines, and hallucinogens.


Students who have a philosophical view on religion are more likely to linger around opiates and tobacco. Intellectual interest fall in hallucinogen, tobacco and of course alcohol. Students have this perspective of trying new things, to experience as much things as they can at college because many of them feel like it’s the perfect or the only time they can. They don’t realize the true experience and thinking of a subject, item or a situation lies in the human mind, which is mysterious. It is important to know that you went to college to be successful in life, to get the network you need, to climb the ladder to success on your own, and to experience things you want. When I say experience things you want, it doesn’t mean to try illegal things like drugs or drinking underage. Drugs is a path that should never be touched, addiction can easy drain you to the life that means nothing. Drinking is fine, but binge drinking isn’t. at parties, students should consider how much drinks they should consume and have fun with it. Fun isn’t found in heavy drinking or illegal substances, it is found in the human brain, where a student thinks to do for the day.