Gathering Information

September 22, 2010

Gathering Information

Hellmich, Nanci. "Pediatric policy: Discourage teenage drinking." USA  Today 12 Apr. 2010:        04D. Gale      Student Resources In Context. Web.  16 Sept. 2010.

•  Alcohol for young adults harmfully affects their maturing brains.
• The increase for addiction later in life is raised when people start drinking at a young age.
• Alcohol can cause accidents that result in fatal injury, perhaps death.
• The legal drinking age is 21.
• Many college students drink on a regular basis.
• Alcohol is the leading cause of young adult and teenage death such as: car accidents, suicide, abuse, and violence.
• Alcohol increases the risk of other illegal behaviors that can lead to injury or death.
• Binge drinking can result in a serious addiction that can be lethal.
• Drinking at a young age can affect your health, including the brain, liver, and your body's capability to fight infections.
• "Alcohol use is extremely dangerous for youth because a remarkable amount of brain development is still occurring at this age. The parts of the maturing brain that are most impacted by drinking are essential for developing organization skills, emotional regulation, abstract thinking and impulse control." -Janet Williams, professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center.
• Parents can help diminish the risk of an addiction to drinking by setting rules and restrictions for their children when it comes to alcohol. 
• "Kids say the biggest reason they don't use alcohol or drugs is that their parents would be disappointed with them if they did.  Drinking in  response to every emotion, positive or negative, sets a bad example.  Parents need to think of ways to celebrate or problem-solve that don't  involve alcohol and that will help their children do the same."
• Alcohol is easy to get according to more than 90% of high school seniors and 60% of eighth-graders.
• According to 29% of high school students they were in a car where the driver was intoxicated and 10.5% of those students had been behind the wheel while drunk.

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