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80 % of high school students have tried alcohol, for many different causes. Some believe that alcohol will take away all your troubles when in reality it’s a depressant and causes a lot of consequences and punishments. You don’t notice that all your true feelings come out because you’re intoxicated and you don’t know what you doing or saying. In the next paragraphs I will be proving that my statement alcohol is a depressant, is correct.

Teenagers and adults use alcohol for many different reasons. The reasons that they experiment with alcohol is because they believe that it will make you feel good, feel stress free and make you relax. Yes, it may make you feel this way while you are drinking but right before you “crash” or pass-out all the feelings come out. You may start to cry, get angry and do other things that may harm you or someone else. Why this happens is because alcohol is a depressant, it slows your central nervous system down. It also blocks messages that are trying to be sent to your brain. It slows down your perceptions, emotions, movement, vision, and also hearing. When you’re intoxicated it may make you stagger, loose coordination, become confused and also become disorientated.

Teenagers and also adults who use alcohol have punishments and consequences involved. Most accidents that occur are caused by alcohol because the driver was either upset or angry and just took off. Why did this occur? Because all of their emotions caught up with them, and everything that they bottled up side finally caught up with them and they didn’t know how to handle everything, so which made them get in their vehicle and drive and think, which could possibly kill you, or kill some one else who is innocent on the whole issue. About 250,000 people are killed yearly by drunk driving, which is insane. Not only do accidents occur, but a lot of abuse occurs when people are intoxicated. A lot of abuse cases are reported when there are parties because someone will either hit on a guys girlfriend and they either get mad at the girlfriend and hit them or get in a fight with the guy at the party. Unnecessary things happen when alcohol is involved such as, accidents. abuse, and other dangerous things.

Not only do just people lives get taken away, or abuse occurs but also teens who drink that are underage is risking getting caught and getting fines. Most teens who are drinking get influenced to do things that they normally wouldn’t do like get in fights and also commit crimes that could cause someone to be sent to the juvenile hall and it could also cause you to become a felon if you commit a certain type of crime. Also, teens that drink loose interest in their school work, which would effect your grades and if you’re on a sports team it could cause you to be kicked off that certain sport for the rest of the season. Drinking causes a lot of health issues too. Teenagers who drink may perform actions such as having unprotected sex. Having unprotected sex could make you catch sexually transmitted diseases like herpes and other diseases. Teenagers who drink are more likely to have health problems occur because it may make them become over weight, cause high blood pressure, damage your liver and organs and brain.

Drinking may sound like a lot of fun, but in reality it’s just a depressant and it causes many horrible things that you could prevent happening by not drinking. Instead of drinking to make you feel relaxed, stress free and all the things that you thing it may help prevent, talk to someone else about your problems so that you don’t hurt yourself or others.




Sources found at:

http://kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/alcohol/alcohol.html

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_drunk_driving_accidents_happen_yearly