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"Alcohol Effects on teenagers"

  How and why are people (teenagers) drinking and abusing of alcohol in such an early age?

Alcohol is the number one abused substance by teenagers in the United States. There are studies by the NIAAA (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcholism) wich say hat about the half of the 8th graders have at least tried alcohol and one fourth have been drunk.
We can compare these statistics with 10th graders. Wich more than the half have tried alcohol and almost the half have been drunk.
With these statistics we can see that alcohol is widely abused at a very early age. But we can help these people, or the future teenagers, to prevent alcholism.

How does the early use of alcohol impact on teens future?

There have been many studies about the age that teenagers first try alcohol. But there is one study that tells us that people first use alcohol at less than 15 years old. We can  compair this with people who first use alcohol at the age of 21 or older, wich is about a 3 percent. This is a very low number, wich tells us that there is a severe problem in young adults.

Some consequences of teenager alcohol abuse:

Teen alcohol abuse produces many negative consequences that affect a teenagers life.

One of the most frightend facts of alcohol abuse is known as "DRINKING AND DRIVING". Car accidents are the leader in killing people between 15 and 20 years old.

There  are studies from 2004 that say that about 14 percent of drivers involved in big crash accidents were the ages between 15 and 20.

in this same year and same age group, 30 percent of drivers were killed under the effect of alcohol. (Drunk)

Teen alcohol abuse also has another type of consequence that invloves unwanted or unplanned sex.

We can mention other consequences such as: 

• Physical fights
• Homicides
• Suicides
• Toxic poisoning

All these accdents happen through the effect of alcohol, that makes someone do things that a sober would´t do.

In conclusion we can say that education and prevention of alcohol abuse starts at home and has such an important role to keep teenagers out of trouble.