Essay on Drinking

To begin with, personally I think that there is anything good associate with underage drinking. Moreover, this habit can turn into serious problem, which inevitably will affect your life. Unfortunately, nowadays, many young people drink at very early age and they do not think about restrictions – they have elder friends who buy them alcohol. As a rule, the youth tries to prove that drinking alcohol does not make them more adults or better people. Vice a versa – they become people without perspectives, without knowledge, family and without a job.

It should be mentioned that official data confirm this thesis. As a fact, 1.4 thousand U.S. college students die each year in incidents associated with excessive consumption of alcohol. Also, alcohol is the cause of 500 thousand different kinds of injuries and 70 thousand acts of sexual violence every year. This is only a small part of the sad statistics, caused by the alcohol. Most American teenagers try alcohol for the first time in 13 years of age. However, in high school, about half of the students drink alcohol at least once a month. If an adolescent begins to drink regularly since 15 years old, this four times increases his chances of becoming an alcoholic. Teenagers usually drink more than adults, and prefer to use more hard liquor.

Girls quicker than boys, become addicted to drugs, tobacco and alcohol. In addition, according to the acquisition they require lower doses. Girls in most cases use cigarettes or alcohol to reduce stress. Representatives of the stronger sex smoke and drink primarily to improve their status in the eyes of the environment, as stated in Drinking age debate important to future of young lives.

Moreover, excessive use of alcohol threatens the health and human life. Alcohol increases the risk of some forms of cancer, especially cancer of the liver, esophagus and larynx. In addition, abuse of alcohol destroys the liver, causes problems for the immune system of humans and a variety of brain pathology. Everyone knows that abstinence from alcohol is mandatory for pregnant women, because alcohol can cause abnormalities in the baby. In addition, people who drink more often commit suicide and die in traffic accidents.

However, arises a question: “Why there are so many underage drinking in our country?” Without any doubts it is closely connected with the common misconception that alcohol helps to relieve the state of psychological crisis and prevent the emergence of suicidal intent. Consequently, many people try to remove the stress and strain away from any trouble by drinking alcohol. But, often the abuse of alcohol causes the opposite effect: arise conflicts, increases anxiety feeling, which contributes to suicide. Today, experts declare that alcohol, even in small doses, is harmful, because alcohol dissolves the fats in the body, and thus affects our cells. Red blood cells are attracted to each other and even with a small consumption of alcohol beverages lead to a change in blood pressure.

Another common misconception lies in the fact that everyone thinks that he personally, drinks alcohol “moderately”, and he does not threaten anything. This is a psychologically convenient point of view, but totally unfaithful. I am convinced that underage drinking is dangerous, because it destroys (or prevent formation) of the psychological barriers and we become other people, and believe me, we are changing for the worse.