Underage Drinking
My topic is underage drinking I feel as though many teenagers engage in drinking, even if it is going to a party. Underage drinking has became a problem over the world among young people, such as our high school underage teenagers. There is more than half of our high school students who engage in a regular basis of not being aware of the risk or how dangerous underage drinking is. Drinking alcohol can cause many problems such as drinking and driving and alcohol poison, and fetal alcohol-related crashes. Since alcohol dulls parts of the brain that are crucial to decision making, decreases the ability to concentrate, and slows the reaction time behind the wheel. Teenagers that abuse alcohol often develop …show more content…
From an article entitled, Effects of Parental Program for Preventing Underage Drinking- The NGO Program Strong and Clear, had stated that they wanted to start a three year parental program that is aimed to prevent underage drinking (Peterson, 2011). This information is from an intervention by a non – government organization with children aged 13 to 16 years old. This program consisted of four different types of groups and self – administrated activities; parent meetings, family dialogues, friend meetings, and family meetings. They used several experimental designs such as the A quasi-experimental design, the Latent Growth Modeling. The Latent Growth Modeling, was used to examine anything that changed within the parental behavior in youth drinking. The results of the study suggested that Strong and Clear contributed to maintaining parents' restrictive attitude toward underage drinking during secondary school, postponing alcohol debut among the adolescents, and significantly reducing their drunkenness ( Peterson, …show more content…
This article had stated that alcohol is a health problem in the United States and the rates for children engaging in underage drinking is increasing from age ten to about thirteen ( Komro, 2002). This article had included eighth graders from age thirteen to fourteen years old in a survey in the 1999 national representative sample of the Monitoring the Future study had reported that there was a 52% of children consuming alcohol in their lifetime and a 25% had reported that they have been drunk. It was also reported that a 24% of students had used alcohol in the past month and 9% had reported being drunk in the past month. The article states how there is a strong relationship between alcohol use among the youth and many other problems such as social, emotional, and behavioral. Their was a study that concluded that an early onset of alcohol use causes problems such as alcohol abuse and related problems in later adolescent years. The problems include violence, injuries, drinking and driving, absenteeism from either school or work . There could also be an increased risk in trying other drugs ( Komro,
My topic is underage drinking I feel as though many teenagers engage in drinking, even if it is going to a party. Underage drinking has became a problem over the world among young people, such as our high school underage teenagers. There is more than half of our high school students who engage in a regular basis of not being aware of the risk or how dangerous underage drinking is. Drinking alcohol can cause many problems such as drinking and driving and alcohol poison, and fetal alcohol-related crashes. Since alcohol dulls parts of the brain that are crucial to decision making, decreases the ability to concentrate, and slows the reaction time behind the wheel. Teenagers that abuse alcohol often develop …show more content…
From an article entitled, Effects of Parental Program for Preventing Underage Drinking- The NGO Program Strong and Clear, had stated that they wanted to start a three year parental program that is aimed to prevent underage drinking (Peterson, 2011). This information is from an intervention by a non – government organization with children aged 13 to 16 years old. This program consisted of four different types of groups and self – administrated activities; parent meetings, family dialogues, friend meetings, and family meetings. They used several experimental designs such as the A quasi-experimental design, the Latent Growth Modeling. The Latent Growth Modeling, was used to examine anything that changed within the parental behavior in youth drinking. The results of the study suggested that Strong and Clear contributed to maintaining parents' restrictive attitude toward underage drinking during secondary school, postponing alcohol debut among the adolescents, and significantly reducing their drunkenness ( Peterson, …show more content…
This article had stated that alcohol is a health problem in the United States and the rates for children engaging in underage drinking is increasing from age ten to about thirteen ( Komro, 2002). This article had included eighth graders from age thirteen to fourteen years old in a survey in the 1999 national representative sample of the Monitoring the Future study had reported that there was a 52% of children consuming alcohol in their lifetime and a 25% had reported that they have been drunk. It was also reported that a 24% of students had used alcohol in the past month and 9% had reported being drunk in the past month. The article states how there is a strong relationship between alcohol use among the youth and many other problems such as social, emotional, and behavioral. Their was a study that concluded that an early onset of alcohol use causes problems such as alcohol abuse and related problems in later adolescent years. The problems include violence, injuries, drinking and driving, absenteeism from either school or work . There could also be an increased risk in trying other drugs ( Komro,