AlcoholEdu proves ineffective

Dear Editor,
   
    Alcohol abuse is an extremely important issue for college students as a whole, not just college freshmen.  AlcoholEdu’s main concern is to inform teens entering into college of the medical and physical consequences of consuming alcohol.  AlcoholEdu is a great attempt to slow the use of alcohol among freshmen in college.  It is effective for the students who have academics as their main focal point in college; it is not effective for the individuals who are ready to rebel and experience true freedom away from home; therefore, AlcoholEdu should focus on the psychological aspect of alcohol. 
    Alcohol is a serious substance to abuse because it is known as a ‘social’ drink.  For example, accepted and normal behavior of having a ‘good time’ would be playing poker once a week with several of your friends while drinking a few beers.  As time progresses, the individual will eventually become dependent on drinking the beer and gradually increase his/her dosage.  This dependency leads to alcoholism.  Alcohol Edu should inform students of the resources available to them once they have reached this point of dependency, such as AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) group meetings, to turn their lives around.  Students need to know exactly what steps to take once alcohol has ruined their academic lives, so they can get back on the right track and repair all aspects of their lives, academically, socially, and financially.
    Alcohol will always be a problem on all American college campuses, because it is accepted in society as a normal behavior; even professors refer to drinking as a common practice among their students.  This program is not going to persuade rebellious students to stop, or even slow down, their use of alcohol. 
    Sometimes teens have to learn the hard way from experience.

Sincerely,
Jasmine Underwood
Early Childhood Education Freshman

Posted by Colonnade Archives on Oct 6 2006. Filed under Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry