Representation Of Teenagers In The Media

* I believe that when reading the title, date and place of publication I can safely say that this article is going to be about binge drinking among underage drinking at colleges. Also the issue of lowering the drinking age to under 21.

Is the media’s portrayal of adolescent drinking accurate? Yes, it is. To many individuals, Alcohol is only a drink, but it is a lot more than that, it's an addictive drug. 60% of young adults have tried alcohol earlier than the age of 14, and the numbers of under aged drinkers is rising. Adolescents begin drinking for a lot of reasons - given that they are bored, due to peer pressure, and quite simply because there is nothing else to do. The national Drug research Institute observed females aged 14 to 17 have been worse abusers of alcohol than 18 to 24-year old guys. In other records, it suggests that eighty percent of under 18-year-olds drink, 50 percentage binge drink. Also around 10 percent of 12 year olds drink.

I had come across research conducted by Bettina Friese and Joel Grube of the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. The study contained many facts about the prevalence of teenage drinking in Europe. Since the drinking age in Europe is lower than that of the United States, I thought that this research would be the perfect piece to change my belief, and it was. They found that European countries have a substantially higher intoxication rate among young teens than the United States. At this point, I did not know how high the percentage was, but I guessed around 50%. As it turns out, the percentage was as high as 80%, or in other words, four out of five 15-16-year-olds drank within the past 30 days of the survey. This was the most compelling piece of counterevidence to my beliefs because when I was 16-years-old, the thought of drinking alcohol had never crossed my mind. The rest of Europe was a little better, averaging around 60%. The United States, with the drinking age being 21, held a respectable 33%. These statistics were the ones that weighed most heavily in my decision to change my

This article has to do with my thesis because it deals with taking action to lower the drinking age. It also talks about how no matter what kids are going to find the way around the drinking age. For example, 18 year olds are traveling to Canada to drink because the legal age there is 18. This source really contributes to my overall understanding of the topic, because it taught me a new issue to lowering

Alcohol Abuse in Australian teenagers has become an ever-growing epidemic nationwide, in particular teens aged between 14 and 17 years of age. This health issue not only has detrimental effects on teenagers but also has devastating effects on people of all ages all throughout their lives. Developing positive drinking habits at a young age is paramount to avoid alcohol related deaths and illnesses. Resounding statistics show that each year alcohol accounts for 13 per cent of all deaths

Proponents argue “The current underage drinking law of 21, has not stopped teen drinking, and has instead pushed underage binge drinking into private and less controlled environments, leading to more health and life-endangering behavior by teens” (ProCon, 2012, para. 2).

media reports about ‘teenage binge drinking’ and the associated harms and generated debate in the Australian media about raising the legal age of alcohol consumption from 18 to 21 years (Editor 2008;

The negative portrayal of teenagers in the media is too much for their developing brains to handle and it needs to stop now – Nikola Ajdarević

James D. Sargent, M.D. assisted in an investigation on or about January 19, 2015, regarding underage drinking. The importance of this research and the main goal was to show the amount of money spent by advertisers on commercials that reach and influence underaged drinkers. The investigation showed that "the transition to binge and hazardous drinking occurred for 29% and 18% of youth 15 to 17 years of age." (Sargent, J., 2015). This study showed

T.R. Reid from the Washington Post published an article titled "Let My Teenager Drink." He states that if teenagers were allowed to drink at an earlier age like his daughters can in Britain, then the younger population in the United States will be safer from the risks of underage drinking. The teenage drinking topic is a heavy subject for conversations in the United States, definitely in the past fifteen years with death rates rising from underage drinking. Each year, approximately 5,000 people under the age of 21 die as a result of underage drinking. Reid believes if teenagers were to have the ability to drink outside in public and instead of hiding it in "dark places", so much of the trouble are would be eliminated.

There has been ongoing public concern for adolescents and early adults’ drinking culture in worldwide. Australia has also great concerns about early initiating alcohol misuse and risky level of drinking pattern among young population. Consequently, the Minimum legal drinking age law is one of major alcohol control enforcement legislation to prevent alcohol related harms among adolescents ( Wechsler and Nelson, 2010, p.985).

Case Study: A case study was carried out in Victoria to determine whether adolescent alcohol use predisposes an individual to alcohol dependence in young

The article from the Sun Newspaper shows a good example of how bad teenagers want alcohol they they take an innocent man's life just to get drunk.

Underage drinking is becoming a serious social issue in modern Australia; with 90% of Australian teenagers over 14 that have tried alcohol at least once. Estimates also suggest that half of Australia’s teenagers drink alcohol on a weekly basis. Underage drinking can cause drink driving and unsafe sex if it is misused. Australia seems to be fond of this drug, and find it to be socially acceptable although it is causing the amount of teenage deaths to rise rapidly due to misuse. Heavy use of Alcohol can also cause health issues later on in the lives of teens that are drinking alcohol. It is hard for parents to be able to prevent their teenagers from consuming and experimenting with alcohol, but they can at least kindly encourage their

The first thing to keep notice is that technology has had a great impact on teenagers lives. Technology is good to help teens complete homework but many adolescents abuse their technology and explore what they are not supposed to. According to Pew’s Research Center, an alarmingly seventy percent of U.S teens have mobile devices that are used to go on social media. With teens going this often on their phone’s who has time to talk anymore? Teens feel like they have lots of friends on social media, but in reality those friends could be a dangerous variety of criminals. Teenagers have adopted the idea to trust online “friends” more than family members and this can sometimes lead to kidnaps like the story of the twenty four year old women who was kidnapped by a man and used for sex. Stories like these appear every day and even though everyone is aware teens still fall for it. In many movies and shows there are examples of teens meeting up with complete strangers who claim to be someone who they are not. Many adolcents have been kidnapped and raped by these fake online so-called friends. Parent’s are not even aware of these meet-ups because their children do not have open communication with them. Technology could be used as a great resource for learning and communication but adolescents need to detach from this dangerous weapon to their lives.