Juan Sanchez Professor. Martha Mc kneeNovember 13, 2011 Should Binge Drinking be an issue that should be considered of High Risk among Teenage College Students? Binge Drinking seems to be an activity commonly practiced in today’s’ College and teenage parties. I am sure if one of us is a drinker, we have gone through this phase at least once in our life. Drinking is extremely dangerous when consumed in large amounts.
Texting While Driving I believe that texting while driving is not a good idea and you shouldn’t do it. It can be deadly dangerous. The government should do something about it. Also safety issues can occur while texting while driving. People might not think anything by it when they are doing it and they don’t realize all the permanent damage they can cause.
Bad judgment and poor decision making can cause an accident. 3. Driving under the influence can cause an accident. How will this information affect you as a driver now and in the future? (2-3
TEENAGE DRIVER LICENSE RESTRICTION: GOOD OR BAD Learning to drive is known as a significant rite to passage which one of the keys to independence. Driving is an activity that involves the greatest risks for a huge number of teens. It also plays an important roles in a peer group, which shows maturity and improves the status of the teen. Teens that can’t drive are seen to be depend on the parents and other peer for mobility and narrows the options for employment. This also influences their social lives and restricts their participation in school and the community activities.
Anyone that is caught while intoxicated should never have the right to drive again. Driving is a privilege, and people do take advantage of it, while endangering other lives. I hope that people learn that drunk driving is a terrible thing. You can end up hurting yourself, and other innocent people. People should think of their consequences before they go behind the wheel while under the influence of alcohol.
Underage Driving Under the Influence Law There are many consequences of driving under the influence. Rather you get caught or not, eventually in time you will and there are prices to pay. “Influence” means being controlled or affected by the ingestion of an alcoholic beverage or similar intoxicant, or any combination thereof, to such a degree that the drivers reactions, motor skills, and judgment are altered or diminished, even to the slightest scale, and the underage driver, therefore, dude to inexperience and lack of skill, constitutes a danger of physical injury or death to himself and other motorist or pedestrians. Other wise to sum up the definition, is driving illegal and putting yourself and others in the position of getting hurt, or possible death. My best friend and my boyfriend were recently in a motor vehicle accident and it didn’t turn out to well.
The term drug has a very broad definition but for the purpose of understanding the social problems drugs evoke it will be referred to as any substance that can affect a person physically, or psychologically, has the potential to be misused and can be harmful to the user or society. This definition covers both legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco and illegal drugs such as marijuana and cocaine. Alcohol abuse in particular is a very serious social problem for which its severity is often overlooked when compared or categorized with illegal and/or more addicting drugs such as marijuana and cocaine. However the prevalence of alcohol use is apparent throughout the United States with average adults consuming nearly 22 gallons of beer, 2 gallons of wine and 1.5 gallons of liquor a year. According to the National Longitudinal Alcohol Epidemiological survey, 7.5 percent of adult Americans suffer from alcoholism or alcohol dependence.
To begin, the reason why people should know the effects of alcoholism because it cause changes in the human organism. The effect of alcoholism throughout the period of a human’s life is immense and even the less amount of alcohol may cause some changes. Inside the organism, is irreparable damage that can be made on the genetic level. Heavy abuse, causing disorders has unbelievably increased. All these changes throughout the period of the development of alcoholism dependency have caused mental disabilities and severe changes in the human body.
Since teens generally like to be sneaky if they have been doing illegal things, they try to hide being intoxicated. An example of this action would lead to drinking and driving from parties, which leads to fatalities. In most cases, these fatalities come from drunk driving.
The reason is that, everything that has an effect toward your partner has to be done carefully and smoothly to avoid any harm on the other side. Driving, as a contradiction of what most of the people think driving is, it is a very dangerous and risky thing ever. Not only because it is performed with mechanical equipment which has no total insurance of delivering whatever is needed anytime, but also performed with a human who is more fragile and has much in his head. While driving, you have two things in your hands, your life and the life of others who are using either the same road or its side. Anytime you make a mistake it can affect your life and their lives too.