Underage Drinking

Drinking Underage
People think drugs are just pills you can pop, something you can inject, or something you can smoke, well it’s alcohol too. Alcohol is the top choice for the youth to make a problem out of in our country. It is a public health problem: people are experiencing the consequences of drinking at way too young of an age! The age of when to start has even gotten lower! Just the other month I was babysitting and I met one of their friends in the sixth grade and he had already been exposed and done drugs of all kinds, including alcohol. Our age range and the amount we do it has increased and this is not okay! Younger people are starting in on the use of alcohol and when they do studies show that they do it intensely. Starting off young seems to lead to the use of other dangerous drugs at a young age or in general, risky behaviors, sex with more than six partners, and bad grades. That is not a lifestyle anyone should want to get into or fall into. Alcoholism had killed one of my uncles, a grandmother, and tends to take over my family and is even more dangerous for me to be around, but I have the strength to never want to do it because I have seen what it can do and have seen all the harm growing up at first hand. So listen up, those of you who don’t know, there are some known reasons on why adolescents drink. It’s risk taking, gives you the rush that you want- when I think of that risk taking and the rush people who drink want, I think: drink and you have the RISK of dying. Expectancies, what they expect to get from alcohol, those who drink expect to get the brighter and positive sides of drinking, it calms you and makes everything more at ease- wrong, I think of how it can hook you and make you addicted or how it can lead you to feel drowsy, unstable, and put you in stupid dangerous situations. The fact that younger drinkers have more tolerance and can consume more, I guess it may seem cool because younger drinkers can drink more and have a stronger take on the positive stuff- I think what about the chance of being affected in the negative sense. It’s an escape, self explanatory-still, I think what if it becomes the permanent escape/departure. Some can’t help it, it runs in the family, it‘s hereditary- I warn you to be careful. They were raised around it and only saw the good- they all lead me to think please open your eyes and see all the negative impact it can have. It kills, it isn’t fun, and not only can you take your own life but you could take another. Absolutely no one ever has the right to danger another person. Stay smart and don’t start.

Resources: http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/AA67/AA67.htm