Binge Drinking 2
It's just another Friday night, but this time it's the guy's night out. What do many teenage boys have on their mind? They want to go cruising down the highway at 80 miles per hour with the windows down. Find some beer, and some women that they can get drunk, have sex with and have something to tell about the next day. The sad thing is, that most of the time it is true. A survey was taken in Nebraska in September of 1995, which said 25.7% of adolescents aged 18 and younger said, they have used alcohol before having sex. That is just in Nebraska alone (Courtney, 288, 1995). It is also said that Fraternity and Sorority members drink more and drink more frequently than their peers and accept as normal high levels of alcohol consumption and associated problems. Fraternity-sponsored parties also may encourage heavy drinking. Studies have found that students who consider parties or athletics important and those who drink to get drunk appear most likely to binge drink or to drink heavily (Shalala, 1, 1995). Although alcohol use by adolescents is frequent, alcoholism is very rare. Still, alcohol consumption by adolescents hinders normal development. Alcohol intake by children can result in learning impairment, hyperactivity, and pers
The second study was conducted in 1993. It was conducted to examine the relationship between drug and alcohol use, personal network characteristics, and sexual risk behaviors. The study focused on social factors that may account for the relationship between substance use and sexual risk behaviors. In the study, social environment factors such as drinking with friends, drinking in bars, and patterns of purchasing alcohol with friends have been found to have a strong influence on alcohol consumption, both in term of frequency and quantity. Another factor the study wanted to examine was the relationship between use of different substances and sexual behavior. http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Colleges/BSOS/ Of the 624 Latinas aged 18-49 interviewed in this study, 523 (83.8%) were sexually active. These women provided responses to the question about alcohol use prior to sex. Fully 65% indicated that they never used alcohol prior to sex, 28% said they used alcohol less than half the time, and only 7.5% used alcohol half the time or more (Marin, 1992, 1106). The demographic characteristics of Latinas who use or do not use alcohol before sex are shown in the table below. There were a number of differences between the groups. Alcohol users were younger [t(519) = 2.3, p < .05], better educated [t(519) = 2.7, p < .01], more acculturated [t(519) = 2.3, p < .001], had fewer children [t(519) = 4.1, p < .001], and showed a trend toward being employed longer outside the home [t(519) = 1.7/ p < .10] (Marin, 1992, 1106). To clarify the effect of acculturation in this sample, depending on the level, the highly acculturated women were more likely to have two or more sexual partners, more likely to use alcohol before having sex, and more likely to use condoms with a secondary partners (Marin, 1992, 1106).
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Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page double spaced)
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