Drinking and education do not go hand in hand.

            College for most young adults is to learn and get a higher education with hopes of one day of achieving their “dream job”. Although there are some young adults who see college as a time away from their parents where they can live it up and party it up. Even for those students who actually go to college to achieve their academic goals still can get caught up in the social pressure of drinking. According to the Journal of American College Health, twenty-five present of students suffer in their academic life because of the use of alcohol. In another study by the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs that states that each year more than 1,825 college students die from accidents that are relate back to alcohol consumption. While around 600,000 college students suffer injuries while drunk.  (Miller, 2013)  As some see alcohol consumption as “normal” activity that goes along with the college experience, but studies by psychologist James Murphy, PhD, of the University of Memphis that college student drink more than any other age group which is not seen as a harmless activity. According to the NIAAA with this excessive intake of alcohol in college students it is putting young adults at risk of impairing brain development dealing with understanding and memory. (Miller, 2013) Within these studies it is showed that the college students that are most effected by the pressure of alcohol use in college are the freshman because the college experience is all new to them and they want to try to “fit in” with the upper classman. The next group at a high risk is the student athletes. The third group affected the most is groups involved in the Greek system as sororities and fraternities as they are known for throwing parties regularly. As researchers keep studying college students drinking patterns they have come to a conclusion that although beer is cheap and can be bought almost anywhere a lot of college student partake in drink mostly because there is simply nothing else to do. Researches proposed that if there were more activities available for students to participate in than the number of students excessively drinking will drop.  

 Abstract
Miller, A. (2013). New Insights on College Drinking. Monitor Staff, October 2013, Vol. 44, No. 9 page 46.