The brain is not fully developed until you are 25 years old, and when you begin drink under this age, it may cause irreversible damage to the brain. Most teenagers do not know that alcohol is a depressant, because it initially feels like a stimulant. This is because alcohol makes you feel self-conscious and unable to relax. There are also physical effects that most people do not know about such as, damage to the medulla, which controls the body’s automatic functions, like your heartbeat. The medulla also keeps the body at a stable temperature. Alcohol lowers the body’s temperature and sometimes alcohol lowers the temperature to much and the person dies from hypothermia. Alcohol can effect the hippocampus which is “the memory center” of the
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If they can not find drugs like marijuana, they use something like Xanax. Xanax is a anti-anxiety drug that also has sensitive effects on the user. Xanax has both short term and long term effects if you overdose on it. Short term effects are: drowsiness, headaches, fatigue, dizziness, difficulty concentrating, depressions, and even seizures (Drug Abuse). Long term effects are proportional: cognitive deficits, delirious states, depression, psychotic experiences, and aggressive and impulsive behavior (Drug Abuse). I personally do not understand why people do drug, I know most fall into peer pressure but still, even if my friends were doing drugs I know for a fact that I would not join …show more content…
Nic was diagnosed with Korsakoff’s syndrome in 2011. Nic say, “I stay away from the people I used to drink with and I don’t have any friends in the small town I live in. My family live 80 miles away and I can’t negotiate public transport to visit them.” Korsakoff syndrome is a chronic memory disorder caused by severe deficiency of thiamine (Alz). Prince Rogers Nelson died on April 21, 2016 in Chanhassen, MN of an accidental overdose of opioid fentanyl. He was only 57 when he died. Prince was found in an elevator unresponsive in an elevator at Paisley Park, his home and recording studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota (CNN). On August 25, 2014 Eustorgio Gomez Gutierrez killed a mother, Priscilla Alanis, standing on the side of I-45 in Dallas County. He was convicted of manslaughter on September 21, 2014. Eustorgio Gomez Gutierrez is now in jail for 20 years for
If they can not find drugs like marijuana, they use something like Xanax. Xanax is a anti-anxiety drug that also has sensitive effects on the user. Xanax has both short term and long term effects if you overdose on it. Short term effects are: drowsiness, headaches, fatigue, dizziness, difficulty concentrating, depressions, and even seizures (Drug Abuse). Long term effects are proportional: cognitive deficits, delirious states, depression, psychotic experiences, and aggressive and impulsive behavior (Drug Abuse). I personally do not understand why people do drug, I know most fall into peer pressure but still, even if my friends were doing drugs I know for a fact that I would not join …show more content…
Nic was diagnosed with Korsakoff’s syndrome in 2011. Nic say, “I stay away from the people I used to drink with and I don’t have any friends in the small town I live in. My family live 80 miles away and I can’t negotiate public transport to visit them.” Korsakoff syndrome is a chronic memory disorder caused by severe deficiency of thiamine (Alz). Prince Rogers Nelson died on April 21, 2016 in Chanhassen, MN of an accidental overdose of opioid fentanyl. He was only 57 when he died. Prince was found in an elevator unresponsive in an elevator at Paisley Park, his home and recording studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota (CNN). On August 25, 2014 Eustorgio Gomez Gutierrez killed a mother, Priscilla Alanis, standing on the side of I-45 in Dallas County. He was convicted of manslaughter on September 21, 2014. Eustorgio Gomez Gutierrez is now in jail for 20 years for