Binge Drinking

Binge drinkers may not drink every day. They may drink weekly or less often, although studies show most drink about twice a week. They may or may not be addicted to alcohol.

Binge drinking statistics tell us that binge drinking peaks between the ages of 18 and 22. Many of these drinkers are college students. However, high school students binge drink as well. Statistics indicate that binge drinking often begins as young as 13 years of age.
The Dangers of Binge Drinking

There are a large number of dangers of binge drinking. Health-related binge drinking statistics can be alarming. The following health problems have been found to be associated with binge drinking:

• Alcohol poisoning.
• Liver disease.
• High blood pressure, stroke, and other forms of cardiovascular disease.
• Neurological damage.
• Sexually transmitted diseases.
• Unintentional pregnancy.
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (if pregnant women binge drink).
• Unintentional injuries (such as car accidents, falls, etc.).
• Intentional injuries (such as injuries from firearms, domestic violence, etc.).

In addition, it should be noted that the younger one begins drinking, the more likely they are to develop alcohol dependence. For instance, nearly 25% of those who begin drinking alcohol before the age of 17 become alcoholics, compared to 10% of those who begin drinking alcohol after 21 years of age.

Alcohol Poisoning

Alcohol poisoning is one of the greatest dangers of binge drinking. It is a serious condition that can occur when the blood alcohol concentration rises too high. Symptoms include severe vomiting, depressed respirations, and seizures. It can result in coma and even death. Alcohol poisoning requires medical attention and often requires hospitalization in order to stabilize and monitor the patient. Binge drinking is not the only cause of alcohol poisoning, but it is a common cause.

Prevalence of Binge Drinking

The binge drinking statistics tell us that binge drinking as a whole is on the decline, yet it is still very common. Consider the following statistics:

• Binge drinking is most common between ages 18 and 22.
• 42% of college students report binge drinking.
• One in five college students is a frequent (weekly) binge drinker.
• Half of all students who binge drink do so more than once a week.
• Two-thirds of alcohol consumed by college students is consumed by binge drinkers.
• 60% of all problems with the police on college campuses (such as injuries, vandalism, etc.) involve binge drinkers.

College students often over-estimate the number of their peers who drink, however, and the amount of alcohol consumed by their peers, creating a false sense of pressure to drink.

Preventing Binge Drinking

Binge drinking statistics tell us that the following interventions help to reduce the incidence of binge drinking:

• Reduce access to alcohol on college campus by having fewer stores selling alcohol nearby.
• Education by high schools and colleges about the dangers of binge drinking.
• Physician screening, counseling, and referral for treatment of alcohol problems.

Some also suggest raising the cost of alcoholic beverages and taxes on alcohol to prevent binge drinking. As you may imagine, this strategy is at best controversial. However, it would likely cut down on alcohol abuse altogether, not just binge drinking. It would particularly cut down on alcohol use and abuse among young people, who have less discretionary income, and might have a fairly significant impact on underage drinking.

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The State Guarded Secret Which Makes You As Docile As A Lamb For The Slaughter

W A T E R  CONTAMINATION

NEW THOUGHT CONTROL

Distracted by so many things in life most do not even consider breathing, eating or drinking water. Down the hatch and off we go. This common event is being exploited by those who know human beings are habitual. People never thinking twice about downing a cool glass of water after hard exercise or that overly salty piece of pizza. Dark scientists working in cooperation with your government have developed a medium of control never really considered by the common citizen. A look behind the scenes is a good start to unravel a guarded practice carried out now for years.

Many are told not to drink water from the tap because it is fluorinated. Fluoride was used on death camp inmates during the third Reich Nazi regime to make inmates unable to produce offspring and pacify them among other lethal effects. Fluoride we are told protects teeth when used in small safe quantities. Users not familiar with the fact are also not told that they are using a poison to clean their teeth. Water is treated with chlorine also to eliminate dangerous bacteria which grows in the water supply.

Community water supplies are sifted through sophisticated filtering systems separating urine and feces. Useable drinkable water now as highly cleansed water safe to drink. Many survivalists and boy-girl scouts are familiar with the tiny round chlorine tablets used to purify water in the rough from lakes and streams which could have questionable bacteria in them. House wives and husbands are familiar with radical flash floods hitting urban communities; rendering water supplies unsafe to drink. Instructions given by civil defense networks on how to clean water with emphasis on always keeping at least 50 gallons of useable non contaminated drinking water supplies stored in the house at all times.

Water water water; do this to water. Do not drink filtered water. Do drink filtered water. Drink ionized water. Ionized water will kill you if you drink too much of it. If you drink too much of any water that will kill you. You need to drink at least 8 tall glasses of water a day. No, forget it, new findings show if you eat plentiful amounts of fruit and veg you only need 3 tall glasses of water. My British colleague research counterparts have many arguments against the use of fluoride in water supplies which they have gladly shared with me along with their toothless British smiles. One colleague in the United States best friend died from drinking heavily chlorinated water constantly in the Portland metropolitan area. She drank it faithfully from mainstream advice specifying the drinking of lots and lots of water. She forgot to investigate before use into the heavy off the charts scale of chlorine pumped into that particular water supply. Excessive chlorine consumption a big component in the BIG C.

I can tell you EVERYONE has missed the plot.

Forget about the concept of cleaning the water you are about to drink. Leave all that old school nonsense way behind as it will not help you in the real world present time. That water you are about to drink is a suicide weapon. You are about to do yourself in by drinking that full glass of water. All your chemical treatment and loving gyrations cleansing with charcoal or other variations is superficial rubbish for all future times now. Come with me and look past what you know about consuming this liquid. To really survive you need to examine the hidden side and nature of water. Water is being used against you as it is a critical necessary commodity.

Things are being added to the water that dumb us down and make us sick and that is being done on purpose. Water will also soon be rationed and you won’t have a choice of the water you drink plus many of the chemicals being added cannot simply be filtered out. Fluoride, chlorine and other additives are making us sick, controlling our behavior, dumbing us down and even killing us.

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Drink the Water

Aluminum + Fluoride = Alzheimer’s and Dementia

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Videos: Food: The Ultimate Secret Exposed

Additional links:

www.fluoridealert.org/luke-1997.pdf

idl-bnc.idrc.ca/dspace/bitstream/10625/4020/1/48838.pdf

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_purification

www.forbes.com/2008/04/14/water-cities-drinking-forbeslife-cx_avd_0414health.html

environment.about.com/od/earthtalkcolumns/a/chlorine.htm

www.relfe.com/A06/drinking_water_treatment_chlorine.html

www.globalhealingcenter.com/health-hazards-to-know-about/chlorine-cancer-and-heart-disease

www.whale.to/a/hatt.html

www.fluoridealert.org/health/

www.fluoridealert.org/health/pineal/luke-1997.aspx

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_controversy

www.fluoridealert.org/health/pineal/

www.nofluoride.com/

www.informationliberation.com/?id=14949

www.fluoridealert.org/health/brain/

current.com/community/90543303_fluoride-used-by-nazis-to-sterilize-inmates-and-make-them-docile.htm

www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=floride%20used%20by%20nazis&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CFsQtwIwAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3dZPOJ4p1DM&ei=-PTrT5LHA4b6sgao7ozPBQ&usg=AFQjCNE2xQ8Yu0B20OgWGiDC_eyN-1KEiA

members.iimetro.com.au/~hubbca/fluoride.htm

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-zq01MDi5s

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Manipulating morals: scientists target drugs that improve behavior

Researchers say morality treatments could be used instead of prison and might even help humanity tackle global issues  -  Progress, Big Brother or just creepy…?

Existing drugs such as Prozac are already known to affect moral behaviour, but scientists predict that advances may allow more sophisticated manipulations. Photograph: Scott Camazine/Alamy

A pill to enhance moral behaviour, a treatment for racist thoughts, a therapy to increase your empathy for people in other countries - these may sound like the stuff of science fiction but with medicine getting closer to altering our moral state, society should be preparing for the consequences, according to a book that reviews scientific developments in the field.

Drugs such as Prozac that alter a patient's mental state already have an impact on moral behaviour, but scientists predict that future medical advances may allow much more sophisticated manipulations.

The field is in its infancy, but "it's very far from being science fiction", said Dr Guy Kahane, deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and a Wellcome Trust biomedical ethics award winner.

"Science has ignored the question of moral improvement so far, but it is now becoming a big debate," he said. "There is already a growing body of research you can describe in these terms. Studies show that certain drugs affect the ways people respond to moral dilemmas by increasing their sense of empathy, group affiliation and by reducing aggression."

Researchers have become very interested in developing biomedical technologies capable of intervening in the biological processes that affect moral behaviour and moral thinking, according to Dr Tom Douglas, a Wellcome Trust research fellow at Oxford University's Uehiro Centre. "It is a very hot area of scientific study right now."

He is co-author of Enhancing Human Capacities, published on Monday, which includes a chapter on moral enhancement.

Drugs that affect our moral thinking and behaviour already exist, but we tend not to think of them in that way. [Prozac] lowers aggression and bitterness against environment and so could be said to make people more agreeable. Or Oxytocin, the so-called love hormone ... increases feelings of social bonding and empathy while reducing anxiety," he said.

"Scientists will develop more of these drugs and create new ways of taking drugs we already know about. We can already, for example, take prescribed doses of Oxytocin as a nasal spray," he said.

But would pharmacologically-induced altruism, for example, amount to genuine moral behaviour? Guy Kahane, deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and a Wellcome Trust biomedical ethics award winner, said: "We can change people's emotional responses but quite whether that improves their moral behaviour is not something science can answer."

He also admitted that it was unlikely people would "rush to take a pill that would make them morally better.

"Becoming more trusting, nicer, less aggressive and less violent can make you more vulnerable to exploitation," he said. "On the other hand, it could improve your relationships or help your career."

Kahane does not advocate putting morality drugs in the water supply, but he suggests that if administered widely they might help humanity to tackle global issues.

"Relating to the plight of people on other side of the world or of future generations is not in our nature," he said. "This new body of drugs could make possible feelings of global affiliation and of abstract empathy for future generations."

Ruud ter Meulen, chair in ethics in medicine and director of the centre for ethics in medicine at the University of Bristol, warned that while some drugs can improve moral behaviour, other drugs - and sometimes the same ones - can have the opposite effect.

"While Oxytocin makes you more likely to trust and co-operate with others in your social group, it reduces empathy for those outside the group," Meulen said.

The use of deep brain stimulation, used to help those with Parkinson's disease, has had unintended consequences, leading to cases where patients begin stealing from shops and even becoming sexually aggressive, he added.

"Basic moral behaviour is to be helpful to others, feel responsible to others, have a sense of solidarity and sense of justice," he said. "I'm not sure that drugs can ever achieve this. But there's no question that they can make us more likeable, more social, less aggressive, more open attitude to other people," he said.

Meulen also suggested that moral-enhancement drugs might be used in the criminal justice system. "These drugs will be more effective in prevention and cure than prison," he said.

By Amelia Hill - guardian.co.uk, Monday 4 April 2011 16.23 BST

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Government’s Big Behavioral Science Experiment

Government's Big Behavioral Science Experiment - Glenn Beck -

FNC - Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif.

This is a rush transcript from "Glenn Beck," July 30, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

GLENN BECK, HOST: Hey, for all you lab geeks out there, you're going to be excited to know that the government is gearing up to conduct one of the biggest scientific experiments ever and you get to be a part of it.

It's called H.R. 3247. It's a bill proposed by Congressman Brian Baird.

It seeks to, and I quote: "Establish social and behavioral science research programs. They would seek to identify and understand social and behavioral factors that influence energy consumption, to promote the utilization of the results of social and behavioral research to improve the design, development and demonstration and application of energy technologies policies and programs."

Oh, this is fantastic. Remember the book "1984"? Sure. It's nothing like that. Really, this is completely different.

There'll also be a director of social and behavioral research. Oh man, I doubt if it will be, you know, like anybody with crazy beliefs, you know, like every other "czar." This one is going to be totally just like you.

• Video: Watch Beck's interview

They're going to study us and find ways to essentially trick us into driving crappy hybrids and I bet that's just the beginning. As Time magazine summarized on April 2: "The president — President Obama is still relying on behavioral science. But now, his administration is using it to try to transform the country" — they didn't say this like it was a bad thing, either — "because when you know what makes people tick, it's a lot easier to help them change."

Well, that doesn't sound creepy at all. It doesn't.

And interestingly enough, it doesn't sound very American, either. But what is that now that we're in a global community? When has that ever stopped Barack Obama before? I mean, hey, if it's for the betterment of the collective — you know what I'm saying?

Joining me now is Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California.

Congressman, you were one of the guys that were actually, really fighting against this bill yesterday. What — what in Crazy Town — AKA Washington — is going on?

REP. DANA ROHRABACHER, R-CALIF.: Well, this exemplifies something that has been happening underneath the surface. Rarely do you get someone as honest as Brian Baird and as sincere as he is, explaining the real purpose behind his bill, which is behavior modification.

So, he wants to set up a behavior modification "czar" at the Department of Energy. You know, we Republicans feel government is supposed to be controlled by the people, and obviously, the frame of mind that comes from this bill is: The government should control the people.

BECK: Well, I'm just thinking, gosh, Congressman, some might say this sounds like — oh, I don't know — propaganda.

ROHRABACHER: Well, that is exactly what they intend and, actually, I think the word was used in the debate. They believe that people just aren't doing the right things, because they're not making choices that these liberal leftists want them to make, and thus, there must be something wrong with them.

BECK: Sure.

ROHRABACHER: Let's psychoanalyze them.

BECK: They're insane.

ROHRABACHER: And, this is — this is as arrogant as it comes. And I will tell you, and Brian is a very nice guy, he is well intended, but you know what the people who put us on the road with all good intentions, they can put us on the road to you know where.

BECK: I'm going to say it — hell or Moscow.

ROHRABACHER: That's right.

BECK: One of the two.

Help me out with this one. This is what Representative Baird said —
he said: "We are not only going to unleash psychiatrists on you, it's going to be anthropologists and economists and psychologists. This is vicious, freedom-grabbing mind control at its most pernicious. And I think we should desperately hide in fear, because without a doubt, the Martians and the communists are right behind."

He was mocking anyone who had a problem with a behavioral research czar and propaganda — mocking.

ROHRABACHER: That's right. Well, the trouble with this debate was
— and by the way, it was passed by party-line vote: All of the Democrats voted for it; all the Republicans voted against it. But you can't tell when they're being facetious or not.

You heard some people there making arguments that, "We have to tell our children whether or not to turn the lights on and off." Well, you know, we — our retort was, you don't treat the American people like children. Children shouldn't have all the rights and make independent decisions. But adults in this country don't deserve to be sent to a psychiatrist if they disagree with some little liberal guru.

BECK: OK. Thank you very much, Congressman. You keep up the good fight.

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