Causes of Teenage Drinking

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Jasmine M. Price Ms. Blissett Composition 1113052 16 November 2012 Cause of Teenage Drinking Many teenagers today are at risk of becoming alcoholics. In today’s society teenage alcoholism is very serious. Alcohol could cause serious damage to teenager’s life. Alcohol is a drug that has a powerful addiction. Other people, not only teenagers, cannot easily overcome that addiction. Alcohol can affect the body and mind. A few tragic causes are peer pressure, stress, and becoming ill. First, many teenagers choose to drink because they are peer pressured. Teenagers choose the wrong types of friends. Most teenagers try and find the popular friends so that they can fit in with the crowd. Hanging with the crowd provokes teenagers to be peer pressured into drinking. Going to parties and clubs are exposing alcohol to teenagers. Parents or any other adult supervision are not around to supervise so they feel a shot at drinking at least one time will not hurt anything but that’s where they are dead wrong. Social media could cause teenagers to drink also. They see what everyone else is doing on the internet and think it is cool. They see them having fun and figure it could be the same for them. Teenagers want to drink because of their chose of friends and the social media makes it look worth wild. Stress plays a role to why teenagers drink. It may start at home at a younger age. Growing up as a child, the kids may see alcohol used. They then think it is ok to do it when they reach of age. Other stress could be at home; for instance, teenagers could be stressing over family matters. Divorce could cause teenagers to drink because they feel they family is falling apart and there is no hope. So teenagers then turn to drinking to help ease the pain. In some cases the teenager’s parents may already be alcoholics. In today’s world, many teenagers stress with academics. School

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