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It was a hot summer night in the middle of August, me and my good friends just graduated high school and we had an array of graduation parties to attend. It was ten o’clock and my buddies had been drinking for some time now, we all were having a good time dancing, talking, and reminiscing all the good times we had in high school and all the crazy things we did. My buddy offered me a drink and I figured, why not, were all here with our parents and having a good time. Little did I know, this was a start to a very bad night. By mid night, I wasn’t feeling too hot so I decided to take a break and lay down, not ten minutes after laying down I got up and got sick, and it didn’t happen just once. The next morning I woke up and didn’t know where I was or what happened the night before. What I experienced that night was one of the worst things I have ever experienced in my life. Those are just some of small effects that binge drinking can have on your body. In toda y’s society, drinking has become a big problem. Many people think drinking is a social norm. So drink to have a good time, and some people drink because they can’t help it. Binge drinking refers to a high volume alcohol consumption over a short period of time, and is frequently defined as the consumption of four or more drinks at a single sitting for women, and five or more drinks at a single sitting for men. Binge drinking goes hand in hand with physiological effects. Test have shown that binge drinking may put people at risk of coronary heart disease risk, psychiatric morbidity, and cognitive impairment. Infants that are born to a women that binge drank while pregnant are thought to have behavioral difficulties as they grow up (Lim). Along with the short terms of binge drinkin... ... years, researchers have found that binge drinking has a negative effect of the lung as well. Excessive drinking may cause cell dysfunction within the layer of tissue lining the airway, making it hard to breathe for some people. On many campuses, in many bars, and parties all over the world people are binge drinking. Little do they know that what they are doing in extremely bad for their bodies. Some people don’t think twice about it but people should really be concerned about what they put in their bodies. They are at high risk for injury in the short-term due to behavioral disinhibiting, temporary impairment of judgment, nausea and vomiting, and hangover symptoms. It only gets worst in the long run, there are many different long-term effects that can affect them for the rest of their lives. People should really think twice before they start to have a â€Å"good time.†