Alcohol & Binge Drinking

Personally I believe it would be true to say that the average person over 18 enjoys a glass of wine, shot of spirit or can of larger and I do not believe there is much wrong with this. However, conversely I do believe binge drinking is very, very bad.

To begin with, the evident health aspect that is attached to binge drinking begins to present how drinking excessive amounts of alcohol is bad. In 2008, in the UK there were 9031 deaths reported due to alcohol related incidents, http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1091.

Another issue that should be accounted for when considering binge drinking is the fact that that consumer may exploit themselves to harmful situations. For example especially for girls, when binge drinking the consumer may lose consciousness of their surroundings, this then could expose them to being sexually attacked and could even lead to the passing of sexually transmitted diseases. Due to these factors, is binge drinking not an extremely bad behaviour?

It could be argued that what a person wishes to do to their body is their own personal choice. However binge drinking does not only affect the consumer. Binge drinking can lead to harm to other from the person under the influence of alcohol. It can also increase general crimes such as drink driving and speeding.

Every year money, time and resources are wasted in public services to attain the need of people who go out up town binge drinking. This presents how drinking mass consumptions does not only affect the user, or close family but instead masses of people yearly. Binge drinking takes away resources and money that could be better used elsewhere on those who genuinely need to. This enforces my personal reasoning into how and why binge drinking is bad.

I believe those who choose to binge drink are selfish, their egocentric ways cost people who pay tax more money each year and have even lead to increased prices of products such as wine. For example according to the website http://www.decanter.com/news/197670.html , it was said that a rethink in the wine market and pricing in the UK was made to change the culture based on discounts and cheap pricing. This culture is binge drinking.

Overall the behaviour is bad. Similarly to smoking and drug use, the intake of the product has health related effects and long term effects for masses of people.