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This paper examines the hiding alcoholism of international students and how it affects to studying while people live in China.  The whole world knows China is the place to get incredible scholarships. In the point of view of a foreign student, living abroad is an enjoyable process. They leave a comfortable environment as they are drawn to unfamiliar, fresh intellectual goals, exciting opportunities and a feeling of adventure. When they go through a lengthy cycle of preparation, they believe they're equipped for the problems, even if some of them end up quitting before they're ready for the mission. As they arrive, their anticipation is easily replaced with frustration, as practices at the university may not be simple to comprehend, communities are different or complicated, and product packages are not easy to understand in a foreign language. They start to miss the comforts they never appreciated while back home after leaving them behind. (Besamusca 2011, 10-11)

Reference: Besamusca, E. (Ed.). (2011). Foreign Eyes : International Students Reflect on Utrecht. Amsterdam, NLD: Amsterdam University Press.

On the other hand, this encourages them to improve their life by expanding their perspectives and discovering how to survive in a new multi-cultural environment. Most students abroad are flourishing and many advantages for young people to study abroad, including improved intercultural knowledge, foreign language skills, and a more general psychological growth. We all know that moving from one environment to another brings about many changes in people’s life. They are faced with various challenges, such as climate changes, which help them strengthen their problem-solving skills, teach them new ways of living, give them opportunities to borrow ideas and cherish a brand new knowledge. The learning process of all these things can be difficult, and in some cases, foreign students participate in alcohol use and other activities to help them cope with the stressful environment and have fun. For instance, first students tend to participate in drinking alcohol once a month for pleasure then it becomes a weekly habit and gradually raises the risk of addiction. Most young people often start with one legal drug, including cigarettes or alcohol, and gradually become interested in more harmful or illegal substances. Students would drink more, they described the experience of studying abroad as one involving greater social and leisure opportunities, reduced social control, and also identified specific factors for studying abroad. In the process of studying overseas, many students put themselves at risk from excessive alcohol intake, and as a result, they suffer negative consequences.

A drug can be viewed as a substance that is psychoactive and when taken it changes the way our body and mind functions in terms of how we feel, think or behave as well as how we view ourselves and everything around us. It can come from natural or synthetic materials and it is taken for various reasons such as to prevent or cure diseases, for fun or as part of spirituality. From this definition, alcohol is a drug that has dangers such as dependence and intoxication (Babor et al. 2010, 14).

Reference: Babor Thomas, Caetano Raul, Casswell Sally, Edwards Griffith, Giesbretcht Norman, Graham Kathryn, Grube Joel, Hill Linda, Holder Harold, Homel Ross, Livingston Michael, Österberg Esa, Jurgen Rehm, Robin Room, Ingeborg Rossow (2010).Alcohol: No ordinary commodity research and public policy. Oxford University Press.

Legal products are those with certain limits such as cigarettes, caffeine, alcohol and doctor's prescription that can be purchased or sold legally in public.

Drugs are classified according to their psychoactive and physical effects into stimulants, deliriants, hallucinogens and depressants. Depressants such as heroine, tranquilizers and alcohol make central nervous system slow such that we become less aware of what is happening around us. Hallucinogens such as LSD, PCP and magic mushrooms affect our sense of perception and we start seeing things that do not exist. Deliriants dissociate the mind and body and they are present in anesthetics. Stimulants like cocaine, caffeine and nicotine hasten central nervous system making people to be awake for long and have less appetite. Some drugs fall into more than one category because alcohol and cannabis for instance, can change from depressants to stimulants when taken in huge amounts meaning they have little stimulant properties in them. Hard drugs are mostly those that are highly likely to cause addiction like cocaine while soft drugs are much less likely to cause addiction such as alcohol (Coomber et al. 2013, 5).