Teen Girl Binge Drinking, Increases Rapes, Deaths, Sexual Assaults
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Binge drinking and rape seem to go hand-in-hand on U.S. college campuses.
A new study has found colleges and universities with higher rates of binge drinking also have more rapes. In addition, nearly three-quarters of rape victims reported being intoxicated at the time of the attack.
“Women need to be alerted to dangerous situations where there’s a lot of drinking and men need to be alerted to the fact that having sexual relations with a woman who is intoxicated is rape,” study co-author Henry Wechsler, director of College Alcohol Studies at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, told CBS Radio News.
Binge drinking is indisputably a major problem on most college campuses, as is rape. Previous research has indicated alcohol is associated with at least half of sexual assaults on female college students.
“Most colleges by now are aware of the problem of binge drinking, but some do more about it than others, and some are more serious in taking a stand about it than others are,” said Wechsler.
The current study analyzed data compiled from 119 U.S. colleges and universities participating in three Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study surveys over three years. In total, the surveys involved almost 24,000 women.
Binge drinking was defined as consuming five or more drinks in a row for men and four or more drinks in a row for women at least once in the past two weeks.
“That kind of drinking is quite prevalent,” Wechsler said. “About 44 percent of college students can be classified as binge drinkers in our national study.”
A school’s binge drinking rate was the percentage of students classified as binge or heavy episodic drinkers. High heavy episodic binge drinking schools had more than 50 percent of students in this category; medium heavy had 36 percent to 50 percent of students in this category; and low had 0 to 35 percent classified as binge drinkers.
Almost one in 20 (4.7 percent) of women reported being raped, and 72 percent of the victims reported being intoxicated while being raped.
Women who attended schools with high and medium heavy episodic drinking rates had, respectively, 1.8-fold and 1.5-fold increased odds of being raped while intoxicated compared to women at schools with low rates.
Women at rural schools were 1.3 times as likely to be raped while intoxicated compared to those in non-rural schools. Students from the South and North Central regions of the country were, respectively, 1.3 and 1.4 times likelier to be raped while intoxicated compared to students from the West.
In addition, women who were under 21, lived in sorority houses, used illicit drugs and drank heavily in high school had a higher risk of being raped while intoxicated.
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“I think it’s very important to do the education about alcohol consumption, together with education about rape, since such a large proportion of rapes are connected to drinking,” Wechsler said.
“Alcohol and drugs dis-inhibit people,” said Paul Rinaldi, associate director of the Addiction Institute of New York City. “In a lot of these young women, their judgment is impaired. Their radar is clouded with alcohol. When they’re clearheaded, they might say, ‘This guy is not someone I want to be alone with.’”
That’s not to say the victim is to blame, Rinaldi stressed.
Rape victim advocates were critical of the findings, which appeared in a recent issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol.
“Binge drinking is unhealthy. No one questions that, but putting the blame for rape on alcohol is an excuse. In reality, the decision of the attacker to commit rape is the only cause of that crime,” said Jamie Zuieback, a spokeswoman for the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network in Washington, D.C.
“We’ve worked very hard to foster a simple, undisputable understanding that rapists alone are responsible for this decision to commit this heinous crime. I think that this kind of study can be very harmful to that message. This is a crime. It’s criminal behavior, period.”
The study authors deny they have done this. What’s more, Wechsler and his colleagues are hoping the findings will be used to ramp up college prevention programs.
“Most efforts around drinking are tied to automobile fatalities, and people are generally aware of this connection,” Wechsler said. “In the public, there’s less of a realization of the relationship of heavy alcohol use to rape.”
- More than 100 people per day are admitted to the hospital in England for alcoholic liver disease.
- Alcoholism can increase the risk for certain cancers, especially those of the throat, voice box (larynx), liver, colon, kidneys, rectum, and the esophagus.
- Excessive drinking can also cause immune system problems, brain damage, harm to the fetus during pregnancy, and cirrhosis of the liver.
- Approximately 43% of American adults have had a child, parent, sibling or spouse who is or was an alcoholic.
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- More than one-half of American adults have a close family member who has or has had
alcohol addiction. - More than seven percent of the population ages 18 years and older — nearly 13.8 million Americans — have problems with drinking, including 8.1 million people who suffer from alcoholism.
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[..YouTube..] Amen, Let kids drink from there 16th, and let adults aid there kids to the process (offering them a glass of wine at dinner etc…) this way people will drink more responsible and know there limits when they decide to “binge drink”.
[..YouTube..] Weed>>>Alcohol (poison).
[..YouTube..] Check out “Organized Organs”. It’s a hilarious anti-binge drinking campaign.
[..YouTube..] Drink, Drink, Drink Your Beer, Drink, Drink
[..YouTube..] whats wrong with college kids drinking?
[..YouTube..] this need to be shown to all teenagers whop ru going for there l’s and also p platers
[..YouTube..] lmao so lame “Action News” lmao and also “Action Cam” wow how lame.
[..YouTube..] I am 30 years old and have had pancreatitis, a condition you will not wish on your worst enemy!
[..YouTube..] if you have a predisposed condition ,binge drinking may be even more dangerous!
[..YouTube..] so? some people who eat red meat get colon cancer.
[..YouTube..] how ignorant are people? its college, there’s gonna be drinking. duh!
[..YouTube..] this is lame. if you raise your kid right, they wont give in to peer pressure easily and they also wont pressure other people to drink.
also, alcohol is this dangerous? why is it legal and weed is illegal?
[..YouTube..] NCxRaiseup: there is nothing wrong with students drinking, its OVERdrinking (binge drinking) that is a problem
[..YouTube..] wtff its like beer pong was invented yesterday. that commentator is fucked, its like hes never been through college
[..YouTube..] wtf these college kids ar real childish with there drink …i drank like them when i was 13 and when ur 15/16 u grow out of all that drinking to get drunk thing..you only drink to hav a good time with friends..maybe its d drinkin age in d usa but in my country if u drink just to get drunk nd be cool anytin age over 16 you would be considered a kid nd sent back to play skoool ha
[..YouTube..] I am 33. Ive been a heavy drinker since i was 13. Any college kids or any drinkers reading this. Have a FEW beers or equivalent drinks once in awhile. When it becomes a binge or you do it often it takes the relaxation and fun out of it and will cause you numerous life and health problems.
[..YouTube..] You are very courageous for coming out and announcing your own encounter with the world of binge drinking. Both of my parents were alcoholics, my mother managed to stop but not before she wound up acquiring pancreatitis, so now she’s off of it for life. My father, on the other hand,…he didn’t stop, and passed away in ’98.
I hope that youth today realizes just how much harm they are causing upon themselves before it’s too late =/
[..YouTube..] Quran 5:90
“O ye who believe! Intoxicants n gambling, (dedication of) stones, n (divination by) arrows, r an abomination- of Satan’s handwork: eschew such (abomination), tht ye may prosper. Satan’s plan is (but) to excite enmity n hatred between u, with intoxicants n gambling, n hinder u 4m the remembrance of Allah, n 4m prayer: will ye not then abstain?”
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[..YouTube..] Is this serious?
[..YouTube..] in my opinion when parents dont let their kids drink at all the kids dont learn their limits, look at europe, the drinking age is 18 and kids dont get as out of control, my parents told me that i would pay whatever consequences i get. When you completely dont allow kids to drink they go crazy when they hit college
[..YouTube..] I don’t think kids go crazy from having more brain cells when abstaining from alcohol.
To die choking on your vomit on a lonely road isn’t exactly the way how we want to go.
[..YouTube..] So to connect more with the students the teachers at my college have started coming to class also smelling like vodka.
[..YouTube..] A long time ago the University of Maine at Orono Maine, was rated in one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s TOP 10 Drinking Party Schools. For a long time the school tried to control this but in the past 5 to 10 years it’s got rampant again, not just Alcohol but other drugs (a meth lab was actually shut down that was runningin one of the dormatories). Drugs, Drinking, Pot are a huge problem at UMaine-Orono. It’s very sad. I”m guessing they’d be right back up on the top 10 list soon.
[..YouTube..] @nalyd09 I used to go to UMaine-Orono and some of them do smell like beer and vodka but that is because they are drunks.
[..YouTube..] @Donkinator90 I agree also when schools hide statistics such as in part 3:03 of this video it makes the subject even more taboo and kids love taboo subjects. I know at UMaine-Orono ME I’ve heard rumors that everything from drug abuve to some rapes have been kept quiet so it doesn’t make Maine look bad. Even suicide rates kept quiet (Maine has a higher than national average on suicide rates). Anyway, hiding facts only makes things worse and more taboo, making them more of a big deal : (
[..YouTube..] Binge Drinking will destroy our nation, we see young people fighting in our streets everyday
we see hospital full of people with alcohol related illness, we also see families breaking apart. so my fellow Brits please STOP IT.
Prophet Muhammad said, drinking alcohol has more harm then pleasure, he also said drinking alcohol is not solution to your problems rather drinking alcohol is a problem in itself.
[..YouTube..] Fuck man its college enjoy yourself before you settle down the real world sucks, thank god for my bowl
[..YouTube..] I wouldn’t say binge drinking is enjoying yourself. I started about a month ago, ended up in guys beds who I never knew at all, I thought it was all fun, but when I got raped it wasn’t fun anymore, it’s serious..
[..YouTube..] Looks like fun
[..YouTube..] Being in college and binge drinking myself, this issue effects everyone different, its always the stupid people who drink themselves beyond belief and kill themselves…everyone should know their limits.
[..YouTube..] Don’t binge drink. I developed Gout, which is a permanent and lifelong health issue with my blood from drinking too much.
[..YouTube..] in germany we call this phenomenon “komasaufen”.
[..YouTube..] good thing we beat the nazis in ww2
[..YouTube..] the VAST majority of college kids drink because they are too insecure with themeselves to have fun without the aid of alcohol. it’s quite honeslty pathetic
[..YouTube..] @lowaces
HAHAHHAHAHA, you sir, are awesome.,,
best joke today fo sho
[..YouTube..] hmmmm 70,000 rapes its been a slow year for me
[..YouTube..] LOL beer pong xD
[..YouTube..] @laynalicious bull shit u got raped. you just forgot what you said while u were drunk