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Teen Alcoholism. Teen Alcoholism: Problems for America's Youth "In 1991,
a study by the United States Surgeon General's office stated ...
... One of the more recent fallout of alcoholism in adults and youngsters is pre-teen
alcoholism, which needs to be considered with extreme caution because the ...
... Teen Alcoholism: Problems for America's Youth "In 1991, a study by the United States
Surgeon General's office stated that 8 million out of the 20.7 million ...
teen depression resulting in alcoholism. Teen Depression Resulting in Alcoholism
When teens become depressed they often use alcohol as an escape route. ...
... Homepage. 20 June 2001. Nielson, Nancy. Teen Alcoholism. San Diego: Lucent Books,
Inc., 1990. O'Brien, Robert, Morris Chafetz, Sidney Cohen. ...
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Teen Alcoholism: Problems for America's Youth
"In 1991, a study by the United States Surgeon General's office stated that 8 million out of the 20.7 million young people in grades 7 through 12 drank alcoholic beverages every week. It went on to say that 454,000 of those youngsters reported weekly binges (Claypool 21)." In the United States and all over the world underage teens are drinking, and it may be because they just don't know about alcohol and its effects (Monroe 56). Underage or teen drinking is a major problem today that is increasing more and more, and something needs to be done to stop this increase and to control the number of underage drinkers.
There are many statistics that show just how big this problem is amongst our youth. One frightening statistic that shows how much this problem has been increasing is that between 1948 and 1988 the percent of teen drinkers increased by 57 percent (Nielsen 47). Many parents may think that their child may not drink until they are much older, but the average age that teenagers try alcohol is between the ages twelve and sixteen (9). Also, a 1995 study taken by the University of Michigan stated that 35 out of 100 high school seniors drank 5 or more drinks at one time at least once during their two week survey period (Claypool 10). " A recent poll by the National Association of Student Councils found that alcohol was the leading school problem and 46 percent [of students] said it was the school's most serious problem (Monroe 53)." This may be because alcohol is very dangerous because it is a poisonous drug that can be very addictive (Mitchell 6).
In order to help solve this problem of underage drinking we must first try to understand why teens drink alcohol. There are many reasons why a young teen may choose to drink alcohol. A national survey, taken in 1995, showed that 87 percent of parents thought that teens drank because of peer pressure, but 79 percent of teenagers...
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