Alcohol - Drinking Teens

Mini-skirts and wee tops, killer heels, the make up and ‘her girlfriends,’ what more could a girl ask for. Well I wouldn’t ask for anything else apart from a pocket full of cash to buy the rounds of drink.

Going down to the bamboo beach club is a big hit for us girls at the weekend. Plenty of dancing, drink, and the drinking games – unreal! Although, I must say, we shouldn’t even be in that club but when me and the girls get dressed up for a night out, our main motto is ‘Dress to Impress’. That’s what gets us into the club but we usually carry our fake ID’s, just incase.

I know what it feels like to be pressurised into drinking way too much and you teenagers these days don’t seem to be able to say no when you get offered a drink.

Celebrities today are said to be good ‘role models’ but to be honest have you actually seen them? Newspapers and magazines read by teenagers show celebrities such as Lindsey Lohan (right) drunk and being disorderly.

You teens see these people getting drunk, having fun and you think, yea I should do the same. But, do you actually know what they are doing, probably not.

Astonishingly various teachers are the same, your parents think their better role models for young people, when infact, they aren’t all they make out to be. As I once found out. It was a Friday night, just another drunken night up town with the girls when we spotted a teacher, practically half-dressed, falling about all over the place. Good example.? I think not. What would your parents say if they knew this?

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Mind you some parents haven’t room to talk. They aren’t all they make out to be in front of teachers or other parents. Teenage backgrounds are a prime example of why youths drink. If young people come from homes where alcohol is abused then they are going to want to do the same.

While under the influence of such substances anything can happen.

One in ten of you teenagers aged between 14-16 years old said they have had sex with someone, whilst heavily drinking alcohol. Many say they have regretted it and in particular a young twin ...

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While under the influence of such substances anything can happen.

One in ten of you teenagers aged between 14-16 years old said they have had sex with someone, whilst heavily drinking alcohol. Many say they have regretted it and in particular a young twin sister says ‘I was 14 and me and my twin were supposed to be going to a mate’s house but actually went to a house party. There was plenty of booze and boys. (laughs) I went to the bedroom with ‘a’ boy. All I can say now is looking back having known what might happen I definitely wouldn’t do it again. Nine months of agony and becoming increasingly fat, yano what I mean. But having said that, I would do anything for Summer, now 15 months, but its hard work.

Sex isn’t the only thing where ‘accidents’ can happen. Drink-driving! Every 22 minutes someone is killed or seriously injured in an alcohol-related accident. Many teens would take all seriousness away from drink driving. As the saying goes, ‘don’t drink drive ... you might spill your drink’ but do youths actually realise the devastation in families whose lives have been destroyed because of drink-drivers. It’s not only the teens that drink who are the victims. What about the innocent people who are just out for a walk or a drive?

Education systems seem to be fit to teach the you kids about the need for reflex actions, parallel lines, imagery and the rest, but what about these things that are happening everyday life, the alcohol abuse and consequences. To show you pupils the real alcoholics, what they look like and how they are living. At least that would help, wouldn’t it.?

Health issues need to be discussed more than anything. The effects on the brain because of alcohol really aren’t what teens know. What about the strokes, blood poising, the cancer. Recently, I was talking to a 15 year old boy, who started drinking at 11. He drinks most nights of the week and goes to school half drunk and he has been given a health warning, that if he doesn’t quit drinking then the alcohol will start to poison his blood.

It’s not only the education system that needs to work on getting through to teens heads about the dangers of being heavily intoxicated. The government needs to play a bigger part. Tougher punishments for the likes of drink driving. Sa prime example of how things are getting out of control, I don’t even need my ‘fake’ ID to get into an 18+ club. That’s how bad security is these days and the government should be noticing this. They complain about underage drinking but yet are allowing underage girls and boys to drink in a club.

The off licences are a real problem as underage drinkers go and buy alcohol from these places and the shop keepers don’t seem to have a care in the world, just as long as the money is coming in, they don’t seem to car who is buying it.

In shops like these you don’t seem to need ID but maybe it’s about time the government made the shop owners to refuse the sale of drink unless the customer had some sort of identification.

But let’s not put all the blame on the off licences. The supermarkets are just as bad. With the new checkout system alcohol can be bought by anyone of any age and I’ve yet to see a young person being stopped from buying drink because of their age. Do the supervisors not notice this or are they just choosing to ignore it.

Is this not a serious offence to sell alcohol to an underage drinker? If the consumer had had an accident then it would be partially the sellers fault. If they hadn’t sold the drink then the accident might not have happened.

My point of view is that governments should check the clubs, off licences and supermarkets to make sure alcohol is not being sold to underage teens. Bouncers in clubs should also be checking ID’s properly and not just glancing over it. Sure, who would know what could happen … drinks spiked or even rapes.

Many health problems and road deaths associated with alcohol can be prevented if people start to work together and stop under aged teens drinking obsessive amounts of alcohol.

Teens stop and think about what could happen before you go abusing alcohol. Remember, anything can happen!