Teen Drinking Issue

Hey Everyone, um, I just wanted to update my blog.  In Regards to Ms. Marootian's  assignment about the Social issues of our society, I choose 2 articles on Teen Drinking. (No one take that!) The First article I found was from  www.webmd.com.  To summarize that it states that Binge Drinking among teens is on the rise, and a very risky business that could totally ruin their health. The following Examples are true stats.  "Compared to nondrinkers, teen binge drinkers were:

• 11 times more likely to ride with a driver who had been drinking alcohol in the past 30 days.
• 19 times more likely to be current smokers (smoked on one or more days in the past 30 days).
• Four times more likely to be in a physical fight in the past 12 months.
• Nearly four times more likely to have ever been raped or subjected to dating violence in the past 12 months.
• Four times more likely to have attempted suicide during the past 12 months.
• More than five times more likely to be sexually active with one or more persons during the past three months.

Teen binge drinkers were also more likely to use marijuana, cocaine, and inhalants . The next article I found was from USA Today. It stated that teen drinking and anger is a bad mix. A study reports  that High school seniors who drink alcohol to cope with anger or other problems already show a risky pattern of alcohol use that could continue later in life