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: The Ethics of Binge Drinking and Substance Abuse

INTRODUCTION

Ethics is usually associated with doing what is morally right and avoiding what is morally wrong . For example , the commandment you should not lie is an ethical rule that is at times hard to obey for safety and other reasons . For example if a man asks you where your mother is because he wants to rob her , the normal person would like by saying she has not been around for the last ten years . This is what we call white lies . The following

paragraphs explain the ethical issues of drinking

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The Article Binge Drinking and Drug Abuse on Campus Get Worse by By Sarah Baldauf dated March 26 , 2007 stated that College administrators have been much more focused lately on underage drinking-but they appear to be losing the battle . A report issued today by Columbia University 's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse , known as CASA , reveals that nearly half of college students binge drink-that 's four drinks in a row for women and five drinks in a row for men-or use illegal drugs , and a growing number are bingeing more frequently . Meantime , the rate of prescription drug abuse is surging

Binge drinking and substance abuse violates the norms of ethics Researchers have studied a set of national data and surveyed two thousand full time students and an estimated four hundred college representatives and administrators on the their school policies pertaining to alcohol and substance abuse . Their findings done between the year 1993 to 2005 glaringly show that forty percent of the students do indeed engage in binge drinking . Furthermore , of the two thousand students interviewed , the number of use who binge three or four times a week have shown a increase of sixteen percent from the year 1993 to the year 2005 which represents 3 ,800 ,000 students . The students ' favorite substances that were abused included the prescription opioids namely Vicodin , OxyContin , Percocet . In addition , others would prefer stimulants like Ritalin and Adderall as well as the daily use of marijuana which had increased by two hundred percent from 1993 to 2005

In Joseph Califano Jr . who is the chairman and president of CASA stated that "The most disturbing piece to me is the tremendous increase in the intensity of substance abuse and the intensity of drinking in these college students . He was the former United States health secretary under the President Jimmy Carter Administration . The report further states that twenty three percent of full time college students are illegal substance dependents and users . This represents 1 ,800 ,000 students around the state

Additionally , another source states that college student drinking is the number 1 health related problem in college campuses across the nation . Clearly , presidents of many colleges and universities show that alcohol abuse is their number 1 concern . Admittedly , the abuse of alcohol has increase the number problems that college students face such as health problems , poor school grade ratings , damage to property violence , institutional...