ALCOHOL ABUSE BETWEEN TEENAGERS



Another developing negative habit between teenagers is drinking alcohol.

Alcohol is not always a negative thing, but everything depends on how it is used. It can be pleasurable to drink a beer with friends during vacations or to drink a glass of wine for dinner once in a while. But things start to become a bit exaggerated when it becomes a daily habit and the quantity drank is way more than expected.

Teenagers represent the largest part of drinking people as they describe it "cool" to be drunk. In all the world, alcohol is considered a public health problem. This because of various surveys and results reported.

It is proven that the average age at which teens start drinking daily is at 15. In addition, millions of youngs are completely addicted to alcohol and are not able to stop. This brought today an estimation of 30,000 medical treatments for students after the overdose of alcohol.

Some of the many effects alcohol has over the human body are:
liver disease
memory loss
damage to the brain
nerve paralysis
difficulty in muscle coordination

Just as if this was not enough, when drunk, teenagers tend to have unprotected sex. This is the main reason that cause teenagers to become parents. In conclusion, between the age of 15-21 the 3 principle causes of death are: automobile crashes, suicide and homicide. All three of them are factors of alcohol.

Sources:
1) http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh27-1/79-86.htm
2)http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-teens-and-alcohol