Journal 5- by LiYuxuan

According to Wechsler's article "Getting Serious about Eradicating Binge Drinking", many method should be adopted to prevent students from binge drinking. In this article, I can't agree more with a few methods.

In the first place, I think it may be helpful to make students who are often drunk realize only few students did so and it is weird to believe most peers do so. Just as Wechsler indicated, "Doing research in research into actual behavior and then informing students about how many students actually binge-generally fewer than binge drinkers believe-can help to reduce the behavior". With this strategy, students who regard drunk as normal will lose their excuse and they may open their heart for the truth that binge drinking is a bad habit which should be stopped.

Secondly, according to Wechsler. students should be responsible for their own behavior,"They should have to clean up vomit in the bathroom made unusable on weekends, help care for drunken students at the college health center, repair damage from vandalism, and pick up litter". Obviously, it is not a pleasant thing to clean up all these mass and it is dirty and awful to do such sort of thing. Students may reduce the amount of alcohol that they take in to get rid of these unpleasant job, which will be good for not only themselves but also people who do that kind of job before. 

 

In my a opinion, schools can set some good model for inspiring alcohol abuse. For example, school can take some students who have successfully get rid of alcohol abuse as an example to show the significant of drinking properly. A good model, especially students who are known by alcohol abuser already may speak louder than words and young man will easily influenced by their peers. Besides, a person who have experienced alcohol abuse may do better to persuade their friend to stop Binge Drinking than others.