College Students Binge Drinking More to Fit In
College Students Binge Drinking More To Fit In – August 28, 2012 By Courtney Friedman TYLER (KYTX) – 64 percent of college students admit they binge drink, most during the first week of school. That’s the word from a brand new study by a professor at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. A recovering binge drinker tells CBS 19 about why he started, and how he stopped, and how he’s helping others avoid the same pitfall. “It seems like everyone is doing it to get so intoxicated that they’re poisoning their bodies,” says Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor Michael Fowler. He now works at Caron Treatment Center in Dallas, but says he fell victim to binge drinking in college, and it took over his life. “For me personally I felt like I was missing out on a social life. I wanted to fit in and be cool. I also started drinking because I had made the tennis team in college and felt like I deserved a celebration. But for me, a celebration just never stopped,” Fowler says. The recent study shows most college kids binge drink to fit in. Trinity Mother Frances Family Doctor Ryan Mullins says the trend is getting worse. “There are a lot of social norms that have started occurring especially in some of the so called party schools,” he said. But Mullins and Fowler say it’s not just the party schools. “It happens everywhere,” Fowler says, “at every university, on almost every campus.” By definition, binge drinking for women is having four or more drinks in an hour. For men, it’s five. “That’s not very much when some people can …
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