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Alcohol On Academics

Alcohol, when consumed in reason, can be fine. But when it is taken in
great quantities it can be very detrimental to a student. Heather Wilson
and Jeremy Foster wrote a perspective on drugs and alcohol in a book aimed
to warn people about the dangers of alcohol and drugs. Here is there
account. "During parents weekend, she, her roommate, and their parents went
to her best friend's room and found her soaked in blood and tears on the
dorm-room floor. Heather's friend had a history of depression, and the
combination of this, a bottle of Jack Daniel's Black Label, and too much
cold medicine left her ravaged and suicidal"(Kuhn 21). The girl in the
story turned out to be ok. She had tried to slit her wrists the night
before. The story went on to say that, "They found her in time to save her,
but she will always carry the scars where she cut her wrists"(Kuhn 21). In
this paper I intend to prove how alcohol is detrimental to college students.
Our brain controls everything we do. Without it we wouldn't be able to
perform the simplest of tasks It is one of if not the most important thing
we have as a person. As a college student I rely heavily on my brain to
help me with all of the assignments for my classes. But what if my brain
didn't work properly? When alcohol is inputted into the brain, it induces
many output actions such as; impaired judgment, extreme emotion, and slowed
behavior (Alcohol and its effects). Not only are the short term effects
enough to side track any academic student, but the long term effects could
have serious implications on your life. Long-term effects include damage in
cognitive behavior, difficulty in learning new material, deficits in
abstraction, problem solving, and reduced visuospatial abilities (Alcohol
and its effects). One of the long term effects listed was difficulty in
learning. Now if you start drinking in high school, like most college aged
students do, you already...