Journal #5 by Gengwei Zhang

Henry Wechsler, the author of the article “Getting Serious about Eradicating Binge Drinking”(2007), discusses about the problem of students from college or high school drinking in campus. He states that binge drinking may cause lots of problem and analyzes the reason why students would like to do it. He also gives us some suggestion about how to make student avoid that.

From this passage, the writer debates the most important reason of binge drinking is that students would like to solve problems relying on this way. Why? Students always want to solve problem in the easiest way, though they don’t know the problems have still not been fixed and may cost them more. What they really focus on is the present value; if I can forget it now, I just do it. It seems everything will be fine, but they always regret after sobering from the mess. It is because they don’t know what the best approach to deal with the problems in their life that they will binge drink again and again. Thus, to teach them alcohols are bad cannot be an efficient way to treat the issue. Instead, behavior logic may be more useful for them.

Another problem cause this issue is that people factitiously distinguish adult as 18 years old or 22 years old. They chronically regard the symbol of physiological mature as the symbol of psychological mature, though these two words are really similar in shape. However, there is no evidence that there is an exact relationship between physiological mature and psychological mature. Students think they are adult and they are old enough to be responsible for their behaviors, but once they got into trouble, their parents would always pay their bills in fact. Thus, how to confirm a proper way to distinguish “children” from adult, who behaves like children but beyond 18 years old or 22 years old, is another importance to solve binge drinking.

What I discuss above is just my own viewpoint. If there is any problem, please let me know in polite language.