: Binge Drinking: Facts

Alcohol Facts!

• There are more than 100 calories in just one beer.
• Alcohol is a factor in at least half of all campus assaults.
• Alcohol is a central nervous system depressant.
• Combining alcohol and other drugs (prescription, over-the-counter and illegal) is the number on cause of drug-related death in the U.S.
• Just one drink may noticeably change a person's behavior and judgment.
• About 50% of all traffic accidents are alcohol related.
• Alcohol is a factor in 90% of all reported campus rapes.
• It takes the liver 1 hour to process 1/2oz of alcohol found in a 12-ounce beer, a 4-ounce glass of table wine, or a 1-ounce shot of 100-proof distilled spirits such as whiskey or vodka.

Why Alcohol is not Gender Friendly

Studies show that men and women are effected differently because of alcohol use not based on the amount drank, but because of the genetic differences between men and women.

Men have 61% of Total Body Water.

Women have 52% of Total Body Water.

So men's bodies can absorb alcohol better thus making it more diluted once inside the body)

Men have more and women have less of a body agent known as Dehydrogenises, which allows men to break down alcohol faster than a women can, thus making the period of intoxication shorter.

Because women have menstrual cycles they have bodies that fluctuate the intoxication levels and in men the intoxication levels always remain constant due to men not having body changes each month.

Alcohol increases estrogen levels in both men and women, but in men it can cause loss of hair, muscle mass, impotence and shrunken testicles. Women are effected depending on whether they are on birth control or other birthing medications.