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As much as our parents wish it wasn’t true, most students in college have consumed or will consume alcohol while attending school. I should know, I’m a college student. Alcohol has always been part of the college experience, an elixir so powerful it can turn any boring and uneventful room into a day to remember(that is if you don’t blackout). However, alcohol is very much a double-edged sword.
Alcohol has been proven to cause organ failure through years of consumption, damaging kidneys, livers, and in some cases brain cells. Consuming alcohol decreasing life expectancy, whether through your body rotting away or outside factors while under the influence. Young adults in college have used alcohol as a means to escape the stress of school and create a social environment where the word fun revolves around getting drunk or worse. Although there are many students who do drink responsibly, but for most students in reality they tend to drink excessively without restraint making it game or competition of who can drink the most or blackout(the term blackout means to transition into a state in which one loses all senses where your brain can’t make short-term memories while so much alcohol is in ones system) I personally believe that with all things there’s got to be a limit. Without a limit we see numerous cases where people die from alcohol poisoning, people are harmed while under the influence or harm others in ways such as drunk driving, rape, violence…etc.
In order to fight back, schools have made programs in order to educate students on how to drink responsibly through online simulations and presentations. Although I do believe that is great. I believe a huge part falls to the parents of children to teach them how to drink responsibly similar to how one teaches their children about safe sex(or a least I hope they do). Student come to college with so much freedom where alcohol is so easy to obtain and misuse. If we can teach our children to drink responsibly from a young age, I know for a fact students would be much safer in college.
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