- According to the document, 9 out of 10 high school seniors have used alcohol, 1 out of 20 use it daily, and 1 out of 3 will get drunk during a given weekend. Teenage drinking is a serious problem that is growing. - The author wants to understand the health and psychological problems teenage drinkers may face, and the chances they will become addicted to alcohol or other drugs. The author's father is an alcoholic who began drinking at age 12. - The author conducted research on teenage drinking from library books and found information on the short-term and long-term effects of alcohol consumption.

1. Teenage Drinking Essay
Teenage Drinking
According to Lang nine out of ten high school seniors have used alcohol, one out of twenty use it
daily, and one out of three will get drunk during any given weekend (back cover). Teenage
drinking is a very serious problem that is growing by the day in our country. I want to know what
kids who drink are getting themselves in to when they decide to start in high school or junior high.
What types of health and psychological problems will they be facing? What are the chances that
they will become addicted to alcohol, or to some other drug, for life? My father is an alcoholic and
has been so for most, if not all, of his life. He began drinking at about the age of twelve, while an
altar boy for his church/school...show more content...
Some of them had more information that the others did not; for example, Getting tough on Gateway
Drugs centers on alcohol as a first step in the addiction process for most children who become
alcoholics (Dupont). They all helped me answer my important questions and agreed on the
information they gave. I started out my search at the local library, looked through some books
about alcohol, and found several ranging from its uses and abuses to teenage drinking. I did not
bother looking in the encyclopedia because I figured that the people who wrote these books had
already done it for me. The first book I looked through was by Alan R. Lang (February 29, 2000); I
skimmed through the table of contents of the book and saw that it had a section devoted to the short
term as well as the long–term effects of alcohol. So, in order to get a better understanding of this
issue I turned to the specified page and found that the effect of alcohol is directly related to ones
BAC, or blood alcohol concentration (Lang 39). This is what makes different kinds of people
engage in a wide array of behaviors, such as when two people drink the same amount of alcohol but
the person who has more body mass does not feel the effects of the alcohol. The other person, who
has less body mass will get 'drunk" faster and is said to have less of a "tolerance for alcohol".
In Volger's Teenagers and Alcohol, I found an excellent table outlining the
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2. Drinking Alcohol Essay
Drinking Alcohol Alcohol can and does kill millions of people. It can effect your brain and make
you shake, lose all your senses, and kill off your brain cells. It also can cause your liver to
deteriorate and not function properly. Liver transplants are hard to come by and do not happen
often, if your liver goes out you do not have many chances of living much longer. You could also
choke on your puke and die. Drinking too much alcohol can kill you, but millions of people consume
mass amounts daily. College students drink and party a great amount. The average student drinks at
least three nights a week and that is the weekend. Most sororities and fraternities encourage drinking.
The fraternities make their pledges drink and the...show more content...
I do not know how those kids do it, but hopefully they will realize it someday. In my experience in
college, I have realized that alcohol has had a very bad impact on my choices and academics.
Although my grades this semester have improved from last semester, I have not picked up a
book in two weeks. I went to Arizona to visit this guy that I know from high school and all I did
was drink when I was there. Once I returned, I had to work and I have also had a lot of stupid
things to deal with ever since. Somehow I managed to drink thursday, friday, and saturday. Each
night I did not get home until around four or five in the morning. I do not know how I did it, but I
made it to class on friday. I do not feel as if I have a drinking problem because I know I do not
need it to have a good time. I am shy and when I drink I do not feel shy anymore and just walk up
to random people and talk to them. It is really hard for me to make friends when I am sober
because I choke up and can not think of anything to say. Also, I can not dance but when I am
drunk I have so much fun dancing and laughing with my friends and the people I meet. Somehow
alcohol is easily available and people want to drink with me so that is how it usually starts. There
are many bad situations where I feel could have been avoided if I had not been drunk. I think that I
need to get back in the habit of doing all
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3. Drinking Alcohol
Around the country there have been issues with the use of alcohol on college campuses. The
consumption of alcohol causes problems with the student's education, health, and behavior. Many
universities have had difficulties solving these problems. Alcohol should be banned from college
campuses. First, alcohol effects the student's education. Over half of all college students have
reported drinking between the ages of eighteen and twenty–four ("Alcohol Fact"). Of that fraction of
students, twenty–five percent of them have experienced challenges with their academics ("The
Burden of"). For most college students, drinking has become a part of their lives. Not only are
these students drinking on the weekends, they are also staying out late on school nights to party
with friends; this can result in an act of binge drinking. Binge drinking is when there is an
excessive amount of alcohol consumed in a short period of time ("Binge Drinking"). In a
national survey, it reported that students who took part in binge drinking were more likely to do
poorly in a class than those students who drank fewer times a week ("The Burden of"). By doing
this they are risking the chance of oversleeping or not being able to focus in class the next day. In
college, attendance mentally and physically is important. If a student fails at either one of them
multiple times, the chance of them failing the class is very likely. Failing a class in which the
parents or students are paying for is a waste of
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4. College Drinking Essay
College Drinking
I would agree with the research. Before coming to college I never drank. I had friends who drank
alcohol and have been around it a lot. I always said I don't think I would ever drink alcohol. I didn't
have anything against it, I just felt as though it wasn't for me.
Starting college was a great experience for me. I've meet many people who I have built
relationships with, and I've noticed how different people can be from you. A lot of the people who
I hung with in college drank alcohol when we went to parties. I would go to the parties, but I
wouldn't drink. At first I did not drink but I believe me being in the party environment and seeing
everyone enjoying themselves influenced me to try it. I would say the party environment...show more
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The labeling theory is a theory that describes how the self–identity and behavior of individuals may
be determined or influenced by the terms people use to describe or classify them (Mead, 2008). I
feel as though labeling can be categorized with stereotyping. I don't see how they are different from
each other because you are putting a label on someone because of their actions.
There is some positivity with assigning someone a diagnosis of of a psychological disorder. For
instance living life not knowing about a disorder may be causing harm to your body. Going through
life without be aware is also cutting out the opportunity to get help for the problem occurring. So
knowing about it can help in the long run.
Some negative aspects when labeling someone with psychological disorders would be that a
person may not be viewed for who they are but, what their diagnosis is. Individuals may be looked
at negatively and their positive attributes are most likely to be looked passed. Another negative
aspect would be that medications may come with serious side effects that can do harm to a person's
health. All medications are known to have side effects. Stimulants that are commonly used by
individuals with ADHD may cause insomnia, suppressed appetite and growth, and other side effects
that can affect child and adolescent development. An individual who is diagnosed with a
psychological problem may be treated differently because of their label. It may be worse for
children because they have yet to develop their
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5. Binge Drinking Essay
Binge Drinking Drinking has become an increasing problem in our society. Many people now see
drinking as a norm. Lisa McIntyre, author of The Practical Skeptic states that, "For one thing, we
know that norms vary across societies" (152). So we also know that what is considered to be
deviant varies across societies." How could members of our society see drinking as anything but a
norm when everywhere one turns alcohol is being advertised? Whether it be on billboards, busses,
in magazine ads, or television commercials, alcohol is everywhere and it seems as though everyone
is drinking it. Gone are the times of prohibition, when alcohol was seen as evil. After doing
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Because of this, we had to use a variable of drug use, that being whether marijuana should be made
legal or not, assuming that those who answered yes to the question, were current marijuana smokers.
Though we do not view marijuana use as a problem, it was the only other mind–altering substance
that we felt could be even mildly compared to alcohol. We do not feel that marijuana has any of
the same social effects as alcohol, and is not a true problem among our society, but once again, it
was the only variable we could measure. Make note that in all theories and hypothesis we tested,
we actually were stating our views as though alcohol was the variable, not marijuana. We started
our research by testing our theory that people who smoke marijuana were more likely to have
unprotected sex, because marijuana alters the mind's ability to think clearly. Often times, people
who are "high" do not think about the risks of having unprotected sex, or even using a condom for
that matter. We then developed the hypothesis that people who smoke marijuana are more likely to
not use condoms during sexual intercourse. To tests these ideas, we operationalized the dependent
variable of condom, which asks the question, "The last time you had sex was a condom used? This
includes vaginal, oral, or anal sex." We then used the independent variable of grass, which asks the
question, "Do you think the use of marijuana should be made legal
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