Whether Beer, wine or liquor, they all have the potential for disaster.

Pure ethyl alcohol (ETOH), is odorless, colorless and tasteless. Alcohol is one of the most enigmatic products we consume today; in fact, it has been with us since the Stone Age. The Bible alludes to Noah's getting drunk; it was a staple on the Mayflower as it crossed the Atlantic to America. Grandfathers share their beer with toddlers sitting on their knees while mothers tell their children to wait until they're of legal age before they drink. By some it's considered the devil's brew, yet others use it in sacred ritual. It has survived temperance movements in Italy, Germany, England and the United States. It has been used as a thirst quencher, to relieve hunger, as a medication, and as a mind-altering drug. Today, the brew plagues a very susceptible audience, college students.

According to Dr. Henry Wechsler, principal investigator in the Harvard study of college drinking, 44 percent of all undergraduates in the United States binge drink--a rate that has been fairly constant for almost 20 years. It also found that 23 per

cent of the men and 17 percent of the women were frequent binge drinkers--downing a bunch of drinks three or more times in two weeks.(College Alcohol Study Harvard School of public Health) To understand the true basic nature of the issue, it is first necessary to define the issue. "Binge drinking," is defined as five or more drinks for a man at any one time within a two-week period, four or more drinks for a woman.(ACPA) This definition doesn't mean getting falling-down drunk, says Dr. Henry Wechsler, instead, having five drinks in a row indicates problems associated with drinking. What's more, he found that few students who consume five, often continue to drink six or more.

What one must keep in mind is that drinking is not just directly related to drunkenness, there are a large number of other factors effected by the anarchy. It is understandable that there could be a resulting decline in academic prowess and performance, but violence, drugs and jail?

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