Summary: Time in a Bottle

In America 40 per cent students now are classified as heavy drinkers. It is noticed that students turned to age 21 start to use alcohol. There is tendency - alcohol use begins in college environment.

According to researcher Clayton Neighbors and his colleagues, students who drink think that this behavior will be approved by friends or peers, they will be rated as more adult, more independent, and in some cases approved even by parents. Researchers noticed that students who had pressure by their friends to drink do it less.

Students start drinking when they want to skip their problems and one of the reasons is thinking that alcohol can help to turn their negative emotions and problems to positive ones. There are students who drink for fun, or just because other people expect them to do this.

Excessive drinking is the biggest problem among college students. One of the ways to stop this is to give a message to students to change their point of view.