Persuasive Essay On Underage Drinking

Whitney Fryer, 19, slipped into a state of sleep deprivation late Monday night and passed away early Tuesday morning. Official cause of death, caffeine overdose. The culprit, a vanilla latte.

Was it an accidental overdose or is that information unknown to investigators and the general public? Was it ruled a suicide?

The family and police and doctors , didn’t know what caused the death. “ No cause of death or autopsy

Almost everyone can agree that alcohol should not be given or allowed to children or young adults under a certain age. Alcohol is a substance that is very dangerous and if you used incorrectly or immaturely the consequences can be great danger to the users or the ones around them. The topic of lowering the drinking age has been in discussion for many decades. “Between 1970 and 1976, 29 states lowered their age for drinking alcohol. The results were catastrophic. Highway deaths among teenagers and young adults skyrocketed. Almost immediately, states began raising the minimum drinking age again.” “In 1984, Congress passed the Uniform Drinking Age Act, which required states to have a minimum drinking age of 21 for all types of alcohol

Alcohol can damage a teenagers health, brain and many other parts of the body as the years go by. “A 2002 article in the journal of studies on alcohol reported that alcohol may interfere with brain development in adolescents, resulting in mild mental impairment. Alcohol-induced changes in the structure or size of the hippocampus (a key part of the brain) may cause lifelong mental problems” (Youngerman, Barry). Another affect teenagers fail to realize is alcohol can be addicting. “When people ask what you hope to be when you grow up, no one will answer “an alcoholic”. But every year, teenagers who thought they could handle a few drinks fall into the trap” (Youngerman, Barry). Many people say they love how alcohol puts them in a daze, a carefree mindset. No one thinks a one time thing can end up becoming a lifestyle or how they function

Underage alcohol drinking can have devastating effects on teenagers. It can affect teens' grades, health and many other things as well. The reasons why teenagers consume alcohol are pretty clear. What aren’t clear are the solutions to eliminating, or at least reducing the number of underage drinkers. It is vital that we do something to at least suppress this problem. By taking action, we can greatly reduce the number of underage drinkers and it could also save not only their lives, but also someone else's life as well. Underage drinking can cause many health problems as well as educational problems in a teen’s life; therefore our country needs to decrease the number of underage drinkers by increasing both the price of alcohol as well as the legal drinking age.

An estimated 10 million underage drinkers were reported by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services in 2010. Although the number of underage drinkers has gone down over the past years, still there are millions of teenagers who have been regular alcohol drinkers in the United States. Among the 10 million underage drinkers, 2 million were heavy drinkers. This surely can be very alarming considering how it is likely that these teenagers are also linked to other substance abuse.

Leah Betts was an 18 year old student who died from the use of ecstasy. On her 18th birthday she took an ecstasy tablet it was believed that she then consumed 7litres of water to contract the effects of the drug. Ultimately Leah died from water intoxication she’d consumed so much after taking ecstasy that it stopped her brain from working properly and caused it to swell leading to her death.

On July 13, 2013, one of these cases made national news and shocked many across the country. Cory Monteith was found dead in his Vancouver hotel room with the cause of death being a toxic mix of alcohol and heroine with an additional overdose of heroine. While many of his devoted fans were shocked by his death, many of those close to the young actor were shocked as well, but also suspected his cause of death. Ever since his early teens, Cory had problems with both illegal substances and alcohol. He also suffered from withdrawals

There's a lot of teens underage drinking nowadays, about 4,700 people under age 21 die from injuries involving drinking. Many of these injuries are from drunk driving. There are very many effects of underage drinking. They range from physical to mental to behavioral problems. Underage drinking can increase the risk of the following texts..

In today’s society, teens often drinks more alcohol than adults do. By the age of 18, more than 70 percent have had more than one drink. National Survey on Drugs Use and Health did a study that showed that when teens are with two or more people they would drink. Drinking can cause some serious problems and even death. There are 3 types of effects to underage drinking.

Kids are always disobeying the law. Kids share medications, they all pee outside, they steal from each other and steal toys or candy from the store, smoke with their friends, or once they hit 15 or 16, some drive without a license. One of the biggest laws that is broke the most though, is underage drinking.

An autopsy revealed that the cause of death was an overdose of Amytal Barbiturate. The coroner returned a verdict of suicide.

O.K. Blast. So you're at last eighteen. You're a legitimate grown-up now! All of a sudden you can smoke, vote, join the armed force, have sex, or even bite the dust for your nation. Be that as it may, hold up! STOP! Put down that drink! You are as yet not mature enough to purchase or expend mixed refreshments. Presently, you should sit tight three more years for that, until your twenty-one. Well some trust that the legitimate drinking age need to be brought from twenty-one down to eighteen.

Stacy Rhymes was a 24-year-old woman from Britain. She had “drunk herself to death...She had started drinking at 17 and seven years later her body simply gave up under the constant assault from alcohol.” She had barely had a life before she died. In the end, “her stomach was like a balloon, as if she were nine months pregnant. Her long hair was falling out, her urine was coloured black and she could not eat. She was scared to look in the mirror because her eyes were yellow. The only way to stop the pain at the end was morphine” ("Work-Life Reference Materials"). Alcohol is the cause for such a depressing incident. First of all alcohol is “the single most used and abused drug in America” ("Work-Life Reference Materials").