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Darien Collins 3-14-12  Alcohol  The reason that most teens and adults drink Alcohol is because they just want to follow the crowd and be apart of a group so to them in order to do that they have to do what they do. So they either drink, smoke, do drugs, or have sex with someone just so they can so they did all this cool stuff when actually its all very stupid. Teens that drink, smoke or do drugs think that it will make them popular but when they drink then they get drunk and getting drunk leads to having sex which leads to teen pregnancy which will lead to having your parents to either take care of it for you or for you to have to drop out if school and getting a job, getting your own place, and then you also have to have enough money to take care of the baby and yourself. Here are so facts about Alcohol.


 *  There are 6 different types of Alcohol.
 *  There is Brandy, Gin, Rum, Whiskey, Tequila and Vodka.
 *  Several studies suggest that alcohol may cause some colorectal cancers.
 *  Ethanol is the chemical that is reported as the % that is in Alcohol.
 *  Alcohol is a depressant derived from the NFOFV&G.
 *  These are brewed and distilled into a wide range of beverages with various alcohol contents.
 *  You may hear that it will loosen you up and help your day.
 *  What you may not hear is that it can damage the part of your brain that controls coordination, memory, judgment, and decision-making.
 *  Alcohol can travel through your bloodstream and can damage your brain, stomach, liver, kidneys and muscles.
 *  As teens your body is still developing, so damage the damage done to it now will affect the rest of your life.
 *  Drinking destroys the body and your looks so all the work you have done to look really good, to keep yourself strong and stay healthy and fit has gone down the drain.
 *  It is legal for people 21 and older to drink but doesn't mean it is something you should do.
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> One reason for that law is because alcohol can have very serious dangers of long-term impacts on the body and brain that are still developing.
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> Statistics show that more teenagers are killed by alcohol than all illegal drugs combined together.
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> Teens who abuse Alcohol can develop smaller frontal lobes then teens that don't abuse alcohol.
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> That part of your brain can oversee emotions, personality's, motor functions, problem solving, spontaneity, memory, language, and a lot more other things.
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> Different studies show that emergency rooms get over 500 underage drinking related emergency room visits everyday more then other emergency's that happen in the world.
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> Alcohol can shrink the hippocampus which is the area of the brain that helps with learning and memory.
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> Almost Half the people who start drinking before the age of 15 eventually become Alcoholics.
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> Over the last 5 years teen alcohol abuse has been dropping or going down because now they understand how bad drinking can be for a person.

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> Worked Cited page Darien Collins <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> I got all my information on alcohol on the web site [|www.abovetheinfluence.com]

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