Youth Risk Behavior Survey

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Who does or not believed that most adolescents act at their instinct? “In 2008, 31% of young drivers who were killed in motor vehicle crashes had been drinking; in 2009, half of the child passengers who die in crashes involved, alcohol were riding with an alcohol-impaired driver” (Li, Simons & Hingson, 2013).
I have a teenager or close to. As a juvenile, we believed that we could do everything that comes on main without consequences or we just ignored them. We all have gone throw adolescence and probably went through many problems that made us mature but many did not had the change because they probably were killed or have to live with the consequences forever.
The investigation focused on the high school students for the DWI and RWI as
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We can use multiple ways to perform a searched but how to we know if they are accurate we do not know but assumptions are made. The study was based on the method survey “we measured DWI and RWI on the basic of replies to 2 questions derived from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) questionnaire” (Li, Simons & Hingson, …show more content…
We will always have adolescents. I could not be the most experienced person but I was once an adolescent I did not drove under any substance but I can give my opinion. The teen should be educated when there is a change to educated them because most of the adolescents would not care until there are fatal consequences. I would think enforcing the law will probably lower the rates but will not stop them because the job of discipline is shown at

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