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Alcohol can be the root of many dangerous problems. It affects your body physically, psychologically, and mentally. With having an elevated blood alcohol concentration from binge drinking, it increases the chances of accidents with your balance and co-ordination being affected, unconsciousness, the danger of alcohol poisoning, choking on your own vomit, and overdosing which causes asphyxiation. The affects from the mental stand point are that it can affect your mood, memory, judgement and decision making, and long-term mental health ("Binge Drinking" 2). These are just examples of how binge drinking can have a direct impact on your body. It does not begin to describe countless number of threatening situations it can put you and the persons around you in. Excessive drinking has showed to cause aggressive and violent behaviour in some individuals but more
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dangerously has led to sexual assault and rape. It has been discovered that each year approximately 97,000 students that are between the ages of 18 and 24 are victims of sexual assault and rape in alcohol-related incidents ("Teenage Drinking" 6). This is an extremely alarming statistic to believe, as it is proving that innocent people are being violated and demoralized by another citizen who is unable to control their actions or mental awareness at such an intoxicated state. Sexual assault and rape are heinous crimes which no person should ever be subjected to, and to many young women are being affected by it because of men getting excessively intoxicated and binge drinking. Another fatal circumstance that can be inflicted from binge drinking is the involvement in drunk driving. This is one of the leading causes of deaths among young adults and can be very common due to having your better judgement and decision making impaired from alcohol. In 2012, there were 2,546 deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents in Canada, and of those there were 883 (34.7%) crashes that involved drivers that had positive alcohol readings in their blood ("Statistics" 5). That translates to roughly one-third of every fatal car crash being the result of drunk driving. In roughly two-thirds of alcohol-related multiple vehicle crashes, the fatally injured teen was at fault and under the influence, not the other drivers. A driver is also 51 times more likely to be involved in a fatal car crash than a non-drinking driver once their blood alcohol content reaches .10 percent ("Youth and Impaired Driving" 7). Impaired driving does not only affect the person driving, but it affects the lives of the people that chose to get in the car with them, the other drivers on the road that happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, and the family and friends of those who are lost or critically injured in inevitable accidents. These occurrences can be entirely related to the intoxication causing them to behave uncharacteristically, as some of those people would never dare to do such a thing while sober. It is in those moments where decisions must be made and life or death situations are being confronted, but the individual is unaware of all the potential dangers and risks they put themselves and others in, because they are mentally incapable of processing the information at the current time.
