Binge Drinking Among College Students: Differences By Gender

The purpose of this study is to find out if binge drinking effects behavior in college students based on gender by assessing the behavioral patterns and numbers of male and female partici-pants when engaging in alcoholic beverages. There are three research questions guiding this study: 1.Does binge drinking effect males more than females? 2. Does binge drinking lead to unnecessary injuries? 3. Does binge drinking lead to unsafe sex under the influence? Most research suggests males have more issues with alcohol than females. Surprisingly the statistics for this research project showed female participants outnumbered or ran close to the statistics with the male participants. BACKGROUND The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) defines binge drinking as ‘‘A pattern of drinking alcoho