Andrew Kershner
English 10
Mr. Au
3/14/23
Teenage drinking
Parents pray that their kid comes home alive! They don't want to get that call that their kid got a ticket for Drinking under Intoxications, or they killed their passengers or even killed themselves from drinking and driving. Drinking and driving is a huge deal that people do while driving and even bigger is teenagers drinking because they think that it is cool! All parents don't want to receive a call that their kid was drinking and driving, and they ran off the road and not only killed themselves but also killed their passengers in the car. Getting pulled over for DUIs, fines for drinking underage and even birth defects are some punishments for drinking alcohol and not only underage
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Then you believe that your body is fine to drive you and your friend home. Then your body decides to shut down and you can't control anything. You run off the road and roll the car killing your friend. You wake up in the hospital and you eventually get the news that your friend is dead. You would be so sad and carry so much grief on your body that you would hate yourself for the rest of your life. “A multilevel model was fitted to predict typical occasion quantity, frequency of drinking and drunkenness in drinkers aged 12–17 years. Findings Typical-occasion quantity was predicted by: frequency of social supply (by parents, friends and others); ethnicity and outlet density;” (Huckle) Also, “Teenage drinking is a particularly important policy issue for a number of reasons: age at which people start regular drinking is predictive of consumption and alcohol-related problems in subsequent years [1–6]; higher levels of harm are associated with drinking by younger people [7]; and there is also evidence of brain impairment associated with intoxication in the teenage years [8].” (Huckle) Huckle also says,“Supply by family, friends and others also predicted quantities …show more content…
When college students under the age of Twenty-one old drink, they are damaging their brain and their way of succeeding in life. Drinking five drinks in a row at a party in college can also lead to unplanned sex and even danger to their own memory. “Compared with students who binge drink one or two times in a 2-week period, those who binge three or more times are twice as likely to experience alcohol-induced memory losses (27 percent vs. 54 percent, respectively), not use protection during sex (10 percent vs. 20 percent, respectively), engage in unplanned sex (22 percent vs. 42 percent, respectively), and get hurt or injured (11 percent vs. 27 percent, respectively), and are equally likely to need medical treatment for an overdose (1 percent vs. 1 percent).” White also says, (White) “Whereas binge frequency is associated with an increased risk of negative outcomes, additional research indicates that there is a relationship between how often a student binges and the peak number of drinks he or she consumes.” (White) Also, “Consequences of college drinking include missed classes and lower grades, injuries, sexual assaults, overdoses, memory blackouts, changes in brain function, lingering cognitive deficits, and death” (White) Finally White says, “When the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) issued its first report on alcohol misuse by college students, research advances have transformed our