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Substance AbuseAlcohol & Other Drugs
They Lie
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Alcohol & it Effects
After you drink an alcoholic beverage like beer or wine, the alcohol enters your
bloodstream from your stomach and small intestine
From there it travels to your brain resulting in the following:
Slow reaction time
Less coordinated
Impairs your vision
Even at low doses, leads to unclear thinking and problems making good judgments
Facts & StatsEach year, approximately 5,000 young people under the age of 21 die as a
result of underage drinking
Number of alcoholic liver disease deaths: 14,406
28 % of female students & 27 % of male students say they rode with a
driver who had been drinking alcohol one or more times
Binge drinking at least once during the 2 weeks before the survey was
reported by 16 percent of 8th graders
Risk Factors
Addiction
About 18 million adults are addicted to alcohol
About half of U.S. teens who start drinking alcohol before age 14 will be addicted to it
at some point
Risk Factors Children of alcoholics are significantly more likely than children of nonalcoholics to
initiate drinking during adolescence and to develop alcoholism
Suicidal Behavior. Alcohol use among adolescents has been associated with
considering, planning, attempting, and completing suicide
In one study, 37 percent of eighth-grade females who drank heavily reported
attempting suicide, compared with 11 percent who did not drink
**Research does not indicate whether drinking causes suicidal behavior, only
that the two behaviors are correlated**
Binge Drinking
Binge drinking is associated with many health problems, including—
• Unintentional injuries (e.g., car crashes, falls, burns, drowning).
• Intentional injuries (e.g., firearm injuries, sexual assault, domestic violence).
• Alcohol poisoning.
• Sexually transmitted diseases.
• Unintended pregnancy.
• Liver disease.
• Neurological damage.
Poor control of diabetes.
Friends & Family
Parents' drinking behavior and favorable attitudes about drinking have been
positively associated with adolescents' initiating and continuing drinking.
Early start of drinking has been identified as an important risk factor for later
alcohol-related problems
Children who were warned about alcohol by their parents and children who
reported being closer to their parents were less likely to start drinking
Peer drinking and peer acceptance of drinking have been associated with
adolescent drinking
“Times are changing” changin”
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/yrbs/pdf/us_alcohol_trend_yrbs.pdf
References
http://teens.webmd.com/teens-and-alcohol
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/yrbs/pdf/us_alcohol_trend_yrbs.pdf