Analyzing a Trend 2nd draft

Alcohol

                The use of alcohol has changed dramatically over the years. Younger kids drink, just to be cool. Alcohol can cause tons of problems when it is over abused. Don’t get me wrong alcohol is ok to drink once in a while when you get together with friends and family but it’s not ok when you’re under age and drinking, and driving around like kids do today. What these young kids don’t know is that alcohol is a very serious matter because it can become addicting after drinking it for a while. Alcohol also destroys your liver, which you can die from it.

        I found this article that talk about alcohol and how younger kids are drinking, especially in the European countries. “Alcoholism is the cause of 7.5% of illness and premature death in the EU. For 15-29 year-olds, however, this proportion climbs to 10% for females and 25% for males. It is the leading cause of death for this age group. More than nine teenagers out of ten have drunk alcohol, beginning at the average age of 12 and a half, notes the document. "In addition to these direct risks, young people are often victims of the secondary effects of alcohol abuse," adds the European Youth Forum, including violence, driving while intoxicated and domestic violence.”

        The rates of deaths from alcohol are increasing every day. “Two out of 3 murders, 1 of 3 rapes, 1 out of 3 suicides, 2 out of 5 assaults, and 3 out of 5 cases of child abuse are connected to the use of alcohol. One out of 2 deaths by fire and drowning are alcohol related, as are 2 out of 5 home accidents. 25,000 American's die in alcohol related crashes every year, or 1 out of 2 fatalities. One out of 2 in-patients in our city hospitals are there because of an alcohol related problem and 40,000 young adults are disfigured by alcohol related car accidents each year.”

        You really don’t know what alcohol can do to you when you drink it because it depends on your body weight, height and couple of other things. But alcohol impairs your judgment. It affects your speech slurred, balance and coordination impaired, reflexes slowed, visual attention impaired, unstable emotions, nausea, vomiting.

        I think that a good solution to this problem would be to step up something up that cops and pull people over and check there alcohol level if they see any signs and even if they don’t see any signs that the person driving is drunk. For example is Portugal on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. The cops are down the road from the club and they pull cars over and check to see if they have their licenses and that’s their cars are registered and also they do a breathalyzer test on them. I think that if we do that they would be scared to drink and drive that way we can reduce the number of death from people drinking and driving.

http://www.faadrug.com/alcohol.asp

Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2006 Europolitics

Source Citation

"HEALTH : ACTION PLAN WILL ATTACK ALCOHOLISM AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE." European Social Policy (2006): 64835. Global Issues In Context. Web. 1 May 2012

Post write

I feel very strong about this essay. I really feel that alcohol is a very important thing and that minors shouldn’t be drinking if not 21. I feel like there should be more laws or more ways to prevent it.