Blogspot 7: Alcohol

We are a generation wherein everything we need are very easily provided. Meaning to say, unlike the old days, people nowadays can just simply go to a convenient store and be able to purchase the things that they want or need. Back in our grandparents generation, it would take them at least a few hours before the can reach another city or town that has a small store that sells goods. although, as the years go by, the value of money is also increasing. For example here in the Philippines, a peso back then could already mean a hundred peso in our days but how does a peso value now. The only thing that you can buy with one peso is just a candy.

Money is a given necessity of people. You won't be able to purchase any goods like clothes, food, drinks without money. However, there is one thing that people particularly the teenagers consider as a necessity too--drinking. It is a vice that teenagers these days tend to be addicted to aside from drugs and smoking. Though some say that alcohol may have positive effect on our body given the right amount of intake but it doesn't remove the bad things that could happen when you're under the spell of an alcohol. Once you start drinking, you may might have a problem saying "NO" the next instance you'll be tease to have another shot or another bottle.

In relation to the problems of drinking, there's one article written by Buddy T, it is not his name because he is a member of a support group that stresses the importance of anonymity at the public level, he does not use his photograph or his real name on the web site. He wrote Teen Drinking - Not Just a Phase from About.com.Alcoholism where he emphasizes the need of help of those teenagers who have already developed the addiction to alcohol. He stresses out the effects that a teenager may go through if they are not given the proper attention. There are several studies that have been done and as a result, "Of these students with alcohol problems as teens, a full 80 percent also had psychological problems such as depression or behavioral disorders."

It is very important that we must be aware and try to be involve in the lives of other people when it comes to this kind of situation. Especially the parents, our world is very different now, young people are easily persuaded by what is "in" in our generation and all of those are good, majority of those are not good rather.

As I continue with my blog, there's another articles that explains further the damage of what drinking can do to you. It came the article of Ms. Sarah B. entitled Teen Drinking from the site Teen Ink. Sarah have listed down the damages of alcohol in our body especially to our brain. 
She have emphasized the common thinking of drinkers that alcohol can give them strength or energy but rather it is a depressant. Another insight that have shocked me is the fact that beers or alcohols have the capability to literally can shrink our brain, damage our capability to think and also can take away our vision. Also, some of the top crime or incidents recorded that involves drinking are pregnancy, rape and even death due to driving and drinking. As early as possible we must be educated properly so that in the future we will know specially young people, what to do when pressure comes. As quote in the article, "A little bit of alcohol probably won’t kill you, but it can lead to poor decisions."