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College Binge Drinking is an informational site for college students and their parents and other concerned people that hopes to inform people about the myths, dangers, and issues surrounding college alcohol abuse.
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Parents Can Help Prevent College Binge Drinking At Home
Forty-four percent of young adults acknowledge that they binge drink, and Harvard University says the addiction that is public enemy number one for college-bound kids is binge drinking. New York Daily News columnists Dr. Dave Moore and Bill Manville discuss the problem of students and excessive alcohol, pointing out that college binge drinking can not only lead to alcohol-related injuries and deaths, but also to STDs and unwanted pregnancies.
Dr. Moore notes that drinking-related deaths among students aged 18 to 24 have increased steadily, from 1,400 per year in 1998 to 1,825 in 2005. When asked by Manville what parents can do, Dr. Moore wrote, “Parental ambiguity during the high school and early college years provides a breeding ground for alcohol abuse.”
He advises parents to “insist on an academic structure that challenges your son or daughter in high school, along with at least one sport or extracurricular activity that has healthy adult mentors in the form of coaches or youth leaders. The clue here is that alcohol and other drug abuse will tend to erode a child’s performance academically or socially.”
When Manville asked if poor grades can act as a thermometer for drugs or mental health problems, Dr. Moore responded: “Parents know what their kid’s capabilities are, and if those start to go down, it’s important not to look at it not as personal deterioration but rather as a possible behavioral problem.”
Manville also asked if parents can start the “old carrot and stick approach” early on, using cars, tuition, allowances, curfew times, and more as incentive to keep good grades and stay away from alcohol and drugs. Dr. Moore replied, “Only if they follow high, but reasonable, expectations and go to a counselor as a family to get behavioral health assessment and corrective therapy if something sends their kid off track.”
Dr. David Moore is a licensed psychologist and chemical dependency professional who is a graduate school faculty member at Argosy University's Seattle campus. Bill Manville is a Book of the Month novelist; he teaches "Writing to Get Published" at http://www.writers.com/manville.html. Sober now for over 20 years, his most recent nonfiction work, "Cool, Hip & Sober," is available at online bookstores.