Watch the following video:
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/maryland-governor-hopeful-doug-gansler-explain-underage-drinking-20676259
To teens drinking and throwing parties (with or without the consent of their parents) remember that you are the only one's at risk. By partaking in underage drinking you put yourself, the host/hotess, and parents of the property at stake of legal punishment. Imagine if your parents got thrown in jail for a year because you had a party at your house. Still want that beer? Imagin you drove home and killed somebody's mother because you drove across lanes. Still want that beer? Imagine you had to walk home, but you pass out on the side of the road and suffer from hypothermia in a Minnesota winter. Still want that beer?
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Risk Taking and Reasoning
"Each year, approximately 5,000 young people under the age of 21 die as a result of underage drinking; this includes about 1,900 deaths from motor vehicle crashes, 1,600 as a result of homicides, 300 from suicide, as well as hundreds from other injuries such as falls, burns, and drownings (1–5)." -- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcohism
Teenagers love to take risks and be rebellious. I, myself a teenager, love to drive last, go into the city, push my parents' buttons and test my limits. But, how much risk is too much? Where does the line cross between risky and poor judgement? "For some teens, thrill-seeking might include experimenting with alcohol. Developmental changes also offer a possible physiological explanation for why teens act so impulsively, often not recognizing that their actions—such as drinking—have consequences." Across the country, teens are educated in health classes, presentations, and mock-crashes on underage drinking. Is it not enough, or is there more of an incentive to break the rules? I believe that teenagers are knowledgeable about underage drinking. I think that there is an incentive to be rebellious. Mostly though, I think teenagers think "Oh, but it won't happen to me."
quote sources:http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/AA67/AA67.htm
Teenagers love to take risks and be rebellious. I, myself a teenager, love to drive last, go into the city, push my parents' buttons and test my limits. But, how much risk is too much? Where does the line cross between risky and poor judgement? "For some teens, thrill-seeking might include experimenting with alcohol. Developmental changes also offer a possible physiological explanation for why teens act so impulsively, often not recognizing that their actions—such as drinking—have consequences." Across the country, teens are educated in health classes, presentations, and mock-crashes on underage drinking. Is it not enough, or is there more of an incentive to break the rules? I believe that teenagers are knowledgeable about underage drinking. I think that there is an incentive to be rebellious. Mostly though, I think teenagers think "Oh, but it won't happen to me."
quote sources:http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/AA67/AA67.htm
Preventing Teen Drinking
4 Ways to Prevent Teen Drinking:
1. Schools should require health credits for graduation. These classes should be taken preferably earlier in a student's high school career. These classes should go in depth of the consequences of substance abuse.
2. States should raise the price of alcohol. Implamenting taxes could defer teens from being able to afford such drinks.
3. City police should continue to step up the Zero-Tolerance law. The community can work together to crack down providers, ID issuers, etc. Likewise, the community show supply a "safe ride home" team.
4. The school should require a 0.0000 reading upon admission to dances. This has proven successful at Edina High School in 2014.
1. Schools should require health credits for graduation. These classes should be taken preferably earlier in a student's high school career. These classes should go in depth of the consequences of substance abuse.
2. States should raise the price of alcohol. Implamenting taxes could defer teens from being able to afford such drinks.
3. City police should continue to step up the Zero-Tolerance law. The community can work together to crack down providers, ID issuers, etc. Likewise, the community show supply a "safe ride home" team.
4. The school should require a 0.0000 reading upon admission to dances. This has proven successful at Edina High School in 2014.
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