A couple of years ago a freshman died at Louisiana State University from binge drinking. One night all the pledges of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity went with some fraternity members to a bar. All of the pledges got so drunk they couldn't even walk to the car. The campus police found out and went to the fraternity house and found four of the pledges unconscious. They were rushed to the hospital and soon after that Benjamin Wynne was dead from alcohol poisoning. This is why binge drinking can be very dangerous.
There are many facts that surround this argument. One of those could be that moderate drinkers on average live longer than those that don't drink at all. The Harvard study then said that the risk of death is 21 to 28 percent lower among moderate drinkers compared to non-drinkers. Another study that was done nation-wide in the U.S. showed that moderate drinkers did not become sick as much as heavy drinkers. This is just showing how if you drink in moderation your health might be in better shape. Binge drinking is not the way to go if you want to live a healthy life.
There are plenty of opposing views that surround the subject of binge drinking. Some say that if you lower the drinking age then students will drink moderately and learn their tolerance. This would then allow them to drink in the open without breaking the law. This might then create fewer parties with excessive drinking for them to go to. People would get used to it and it wouldn't be as big of a deal to drink when you are of age. The only problem with this is that there is a lack of evidence to show that this would work. Some might say other countries have lower drinking ages and they don't have big problem with binge drinking. Well, this is not true because other countries face some of the same problems with binge drinking just like the U.S. The world's highest consumption rates of alcohol are in Europe.