Binge Drinking

by Claudia Campos
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CQ Researcher article "Drinking on Campus" by Laren Scrivo speaks about binge drinking and how there is something wrong with the attitude of invincibility and mentality that nothing bad will happen, which is what college students think. She goes on to say that students binge drinking is a cover up for deeper psychological and emotional problems that should be addressed by society and that drowning the liver, brain and emotions in alcohol seems to be what people enjoy dong instead of talking and expressing those emotions in a healthy and productive way. Along with parties and booze, sex and drugs all to alleviate the "problems" of life.

Her article said that drowning the mind and body to numb the pain, reality and escape responsibility are factors that cotribute to this behavior.

Reporters thoughts

To be honest with the self and just stand still and feel the emotion is scary to a lot of people, but what is not scary is killing the body and destroying the brain. It is not scary to drive drunk and kill innocent people and it is not scary dying on the floor of a party because of an overdose of alcohol and drugs. It is not scary to find one self over a toilet throwing up the toxic and left over dinner. And it is not scary to do it all over again the next day.

People should show those guts they use to drink to face their selves and recognize that suppressing the problem does not make it go away. To acknowledge and simply admit those emotions of fear, failure, anger, sadness, confusion and emptiness is the beginning. They exist in everyone and http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/ web site has many resources and ideas to confront these issues . Admitting it to the self and just feeling the moment of truth, that will help control the impulse that leads and triggers the drinking, drugs, and sexual misconduct behaviors.

Just stop for a moment and be in that moment and people will realize the "problem" is not the drinking but the lack of attention to the person and what they are thinking, feeling and what they want and what they are not doing to attain that.

Drinking is just a behavior and people need to dig and find the underlining "problem". Which is the mentality of the person.
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