Under Age Drinking : The Problems It Creates :: Teenage Drinking

Under Age Drinking The Problems It CreatesIts a Saturday night, and the bars ar packed. People be insidehaving a few, or more than a few, drinks. A select few are really drunk orpassed out. Now lets step removed and take a look at a different type ofdrinking, drinking at an early age. High school and junior high kids are at aparty drinking. Like the adults, some are just having a few, but quite a feware having more than that and are stumbling around.These kids have been given the idea that drinking is something thatadults do, and we all know that kids cant wait to be grown up. Thus, theydrink, figuring that if they can at least do what adults do then they will begrown up, in a way. This is how our society works.Enough with the philosophy of it. Now I would like to talk about thepersonal effects that early age drinking can have on a person. I grew up in a town thathas the most bars per capata in the state of Montana and is in the top ten inthe United States. This has a huge effe ct on under age drinkers. The bars measureat the door and as long as your 18 your in. And since the bouncers will stampnearly anyone they know or like the number of kids is always high. It dosnt aid that Dillon is a college town and ther are many under age college kidsthere. Now lets imagine another party where kids are drinking.The bonfire is roaring, Bubba just decided that singeing everyoneseyebrows clear up by throwing some gasoline on the fire would be fun. Of coursenobody thought that this was very funny except for Bubba. Bubba is not the only teen person at this party who has had a few to many. There are a lot ofunder age kids who are just plain drunk. This is a regular kind of party in myhometown, everyone goes out and drinks to get drunk. The sad thing is, thatthese kind of parties happen a lot of time twice a week expecially during thespring. All this partying catches up with these young peolpe. They dont getjobs because they are too tired from partying all night or all weekend long.Thier grades start slipping. The finish up effect, however has to be the addictionto alcohol. Ive seen freshman who drink all the time because they feel theycant live without their alcohol. Of course you have to realize that this is a