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What is “binge drinking?” Many college alcohol problems are related to binge drinking. Binge drinking is a pattern of drinking that brings blood alcohol concentration (BAC) levels to 0.08 g/dL. This typically occurs after 4 drinks for women and 5 drinks for men—in about 2 hours. Drinking this way can pose serious health and safety risks, including car crashes, drunk-driving arrests, sexual assaults, and injuries. Over the long term, frequent binge drinking can damage the liver and other organs.

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Consequences—Researchers estimate that each year:

1,825 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die from alcohol-related unintentional injuries, including motor-vehicle crashes.²³

696,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are assaulted by another student who has been drinking.²⁴

97,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 report experiencing alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape.²⁴

Roughly 20 percent of college students meet the criteria for AUD.²⁵

About 1 in 4 college students report academic consequences from drinking, including missing class, falling behind in class, doing poorly on exams or papers, and receiving lower grades overall.²⁶

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Adults (ages 18+): According to the 2015 NSDUH, 15.1 million adults ages 18 and older3 (6.2 percent of this age group⁴) had AUD. This includes 9.8 million men³ (8.4 percent of men in this age group⁴) and 5.3 million women³ (4.2 percent of women in this age group⁴).

About 1.3 million adults received treatment for AUD at a specialized facility in 2015 (8.3 percent of adults who needed treatment).⁵ This included 898,000 men⁵ (8.8 percent of men who needed treatment) and 417,000 women (7.5 percent of women who needed treatment).⁵

Youth (ages 12–17): According to the 2015 NSDUH, an estimated 623,000 adolescents ages 12–17⁶ (2.5 percent of this age group⁷) had AUD. This number includes 298,000 males⁶ (2.3 percent of males in this age group7) and 325,000 females⁶ (2.7 percent of females in this age group⁷).

An estimated 37,000 adolescents (22,000 males and 15,000 females) received treatment for an alcohol problem in a specialized facility in 2015.⁸

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Camy.org and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of public of Health 

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Camy.org and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of public of Health 

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The average age at which young people ages 12 to 17 begin to drink is 13 years old. The average age that underage drinkers ages 12 to 20 begin to drink is 16.1 years old. From 1979 to 2006, risk of binge drinking declined from 12- to 20-year old males but not females in this age range.

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Nearly 10 million young people, ages 12 to 20, reported that they've consumed alcohol in the past 30 days. Teens who start drinking before age 15 years are 5 times more likely to develop alcohol dependence or abuse later in life than those who begin drinking at or after the legal age of 21.

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http://www.knowyourlimits.info/know%E2%80%A6-effects-alcohol
Binge drinking can cause blackouts, memory loss and anxiety. Long-term drinking can result in permanent brain damage, serious mental health problems and alcohol dependence or alcoholism.
People who drink a lot of alcohol have more lung infections, are more likely to suffer collapsed lungs and can be more likely to get pneumonia.Drinking too much alcohol initially causes fat deposits to develop in the liver. With continued excessive drinking, the liver may become inflamed, causing alcoholic hepatitis, which can result in liver failure and death.Alcohol interferes with the body's ability to absorb calcium. As a result, your bones become weak and thin .65% of suicides have been linked to excessive drinking;

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>> 12 ounces of beer with about 5% alcohol content
>> 5 ounces of wine with about 12% alcohol content
>>1.5 ounces of distilled spirits with about 40% alcohol content

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In the 1970's they changed the drinking age to 18 and older. However in today society we see that's not the point. People have gotten even sicker since they were still pretty young .In addition to that, once kids turn 21 and start  ot use achol, they still havent got their life set up and just mess up their life with the use of the bevrage.

Subsequently, in the late 1970s, states began to increase drinking ages again. ... The 21-year-old drinking age is saving lives... Lowering the legal age to purchase and consume alcohol to 18 would increase the number of 18-20 year-olds killed or injured in motor vehicle crashes.

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The age of maturity is 25 according to NPR.org
(http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=141164708)
Tony Cox says that science has stated that the growing body isn't fully developed until 25 or so.
The neuroscientist,Sandra Aamodt also agrees with the statement

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By age 33, about 33 percent of teens have had at least one drink.
By age 18, about 60% of teen have had at least 1 drink.
In 2015, 7.7M young people ages 12-20 reported that they drank alcohol beyond "just a few sips" in the past month.