Alcoholism In Teens

I’m going to be going on a homestay in France for two weeks this May but I need to decide what areas would be best to visit. I’ll be staying with a family through the program but they aren’t expected to be my tour guides. I’ll have just turned 18 and I won’t be able to drive, drink, etc.. according to the programs rules. What would be the best region to visit considering transportation, safety, and things of interest to do?

Nantes is lovely, as it Cassis and some other little towns close to the Spanish border. If you’re trying to get your french up then provence is the most beautiful, inexpensive and charming way of doing it- you’ll find that people are keen to speak with you if you’re willing to learn!

Steer clear of Marseilles, it’s quite rough I believe, though if you were with a nice host family I’m sure it’d be fine! Paris is wonderful but I think it’s be quite difficult to organise a host family there…

Drinking and driving aren’t really a necessity in France, it’s the food and the people and the scenery that’ll blow you away. Perhaps look at places someone you know has been to and then they can give you a feel for whether it’ll suit your tastes, it all depends on what you’re in to!

Worst case scenario though, you’re only there for two weeks, so try and make the most of them wherever you end up!

I have to do a health prog on under age drinking and i was woundering how much you have to concume before you get a mager haed ach or you pass out? or how much brain cells would get lossed.
im not going to drink and i never plane on it i just need to do a progect.

first off not everyones body reacts the same with alcohol
it all depends on height weight etc

questions that are researchable and not too narrow/broad and that can be answered in about 10 pages.

You could ask "Is there a connection between drug abuse and teen pregnancy?"

it’s quite long… well, one and a bit pages.

i did have more in about alcoholism but had to get it down to 1000 words. thanks guys:D

Teenagers Today: What Pointless individuals ehhh?
Stereotypically, young people in Britain carry the burden of being the most badly behaved in the whole of Europe. Figures for under age drinking show that our teenagers are drinking an average of 44 bottles of wine or 177 pints of beer a year each.
At the turn of the 21st century, many surveys also found that just over a quarter of teenagers were frequently depressed and unhappy.
The figures are undoubtedly shocking and unnerving, but do the activities of our young people really surprise us? Or has it actually become the ‘norm’ to behave like this? Are teenagers just over reacting to the flooded media coverage of the topic?

The Trouble with our Government
In my opinion the answer is ‘NO’. We have developed and evolved into a modern world where contemporary culture has finally broken through the mould, and defeated the ‘safe’ lifestyle in which we used to live.
There is often the thought amongst youths that ‘you only live once’, and you should ‘live life to the full’. These maxims may be morally right, yet they are causing havoc among the younger generation, where late-night parties and trying new drugs seems to be ‘living life’.
Even if youngsters manage to break away from this harsh existence, they are still faced with exams, school, peer pressure, family troubles and the already burdensome period of growing up.
Bob Reitemeier, the children’s society chief executive, said: "Too often children’s mental health has been dismissed as being of little importance, but there is now an understanding in the Government that if we want to give children a better childhood, matters such as these must be addressed”. The society has highlighted this issue for a long time, yet no action has been taken to help young people as yet.
However, the Welsh Assembly government has challenged the executive, stating that the Government has always committed itself to children, and that it intends to bring in a new scheme to help young people in rural areas.
The scheme, entitled, ‘Young Hope, Young Action’ will be launched within the coming months and will endeavour to tackle the ongoing problem of teenage and child depression and alcohol abuse. However, is the scheme just another waste of money to throw the public off the Government’s failing policies?
When I was sixteen, the general feeling among my peers was that the lack of hope and aspiration for people who aren’t as capable as others limited them.
There were definitely problems at school, with many children being ‘left behind’ in the education system and a lack of after school clubs that didn’t relate to sporting activities.
At present, these problems seem to have been fixed. But now the dilemma with our youths has moved on to what happens after school. You will, on many occasions I’m sure, have heard the more elderly residents of the community moan about the actions of our young people on the streets. But is what they say the true cause? ‘There’s nothing to do’, they moan, or is this merely an excuse to keep the blame on authority?
In my opinion, the youth of today has been unfairly moulded into this stereotype, and the pure ease of getting drugs and cheap alcohol has turned the teens into this ugly picture of unpleasantness.
I am optimistic that ‘Young Hope, Young Action’ will indeed commit itself to ridding youths of their worries, yet at the same time faced with the common thought amongst the public, will it actually work?

Is the Situation Worse in Rural Areas?
After looking at rural areas in the mid Wales area, I have found that there are fewer facilities and ‘after school programmes’ catering for young people there, showing that maybe it is even tougher for youths of these areas.
With, let’s face it, not very much to do in our small towns and villages, it is not shocking that youths end up lurking around like rats in the streets, is it?
Kirsty Williams, AM for Brecon and Radnor, has expressed her disappointment with the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) and their failure to deal with this ongoing problem, and the lack of funding for young people. She said, “It is so annoying that yet again Powys has revealed that the number of depressed young people in my constituency has risen from obscurity over the last year alone”.
According to Government and university research, up to 40% of teens are at risk of depression from family history alone! This figure is undoubtedly worrying and emphasises that there must be thousands of young people out there at the moment worrying about existing problems.

Council plans for the future programmes will not come cheap however; the £500,000 out of tax payers’ money will only fund the staff. Money for the use of facilities will have to come from the WAG.
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The fact that the number of teenagers with depression has risen this year shows that the problem is getting worse. This maybe the case for the whole country, but we do need to understand that there isn’t as much help in rural areas as there is in more urbanised regions.

Does all this turn them to Suicide then?
The number of young people committing suicide has continued to drop in recent years in Wales. However, the number is still eight times higher than in England. This shows that many people still feel depressed in our small country.
The figures are high for a more economically developed country (MEDC), and especially when compared with England you can see that in Wales the situation is worse by far.

So What do we do?
The figures are very worrying indeed and show us that as the generation above, we must turn our attention to young people. When it comes down to it, it is easy to see that growing up in the 0s is far harder than it was in the 70s– or is it?
there is a ’so what do we do bit’ but that’s just a ridiculous amount to read.

and to the first answerer, i am 16, pretending to be 35. And i have not cheated! it’s all my own work! and i’m sorry if i offended you but none of the stuff in the article is actually true! And i will use ur advise to help, thank you!!
actually i meant- none of the stuff in the article is true!…

I think it’s great! I actually enjoyed it.

I recieved a ticket last week i drove my friends who were both drunk and iam 20 n will turn 21 in 2 weeks but i had consumed 2 beers early on in the night but 3 hours later i drove them home. The alignment of the car was messed up which sucks cuz i wasnt warned. The car got in a minor accident on the side of the rode. A neighbor called the state trooper to come. The trooper came took my our ids asked me if i had drank i told him the truth i had 2 beers he gave me breathalizer test. He said i told the truth because the test was under .03 he did write me up for underage drinking n on the ticket he put i drove recklessly. I asked if i would be affected when i apply to the Police academy he said they will give me a misdemeanor for Underage drinking n i have to pay a fine and the reckles driving would proably be dropped. I believe him and i would just like to know if the penalty he states would be true or will it be worse? this is in North Carolina if that affects anything

ask for the "first offender" they will usually give it to you, you can only use it once, and once you complete everything, your record will be expunged (coming from Georgia)

I over heard that there is a Lady in our neighborhood that lets her own kids (16 &18) have parties and she allows them to have alcohol. I tried to get more info of when are these party held so I can call child services, but I have not been successful to know when. I usually hear about these parties after the fact. Is there a way to report this and have them monitor the house? What can we do?

If you know where she lives, just casually pass by her house once a night after 10pm. If there’s a party happening, you’ll know it by the noise, parked cars, etc. Then call the police and report that you think there’s underage drinking happening at that address.

And to all the morons telling you to mind your own business, or that it’s just kids having fun, all it takes is one idiot teenager to drive drunk and kill a bunch of people. That is not harmless fun!

i need to know why more and more teens are turning to drugs and alcohol…and what we can do to help keep teens from becoming addicts and alcoholics

coz its funnnnnn!

why do you think?!

haha

The poem was about a girl who went to a party and her mom told her no drinking and so she didnt and then she was leaving the party and a drunk drive crashed into her and killed her, anyone know the name and if I can find a copy on the internet?
Thank u so much that was exactly what I was looking for

It’s called "somebody should have taught him" . Very powerful poem. I will look for a link for you.

I am 18, finishing high school, i have a stepdad who has been always checking everything i was doing, and if i got even a little F, he got extremely mad and started cussing and shouting, now first it was grades, at this point its anything, we’ve been having some problems financially, anything i say at this point, can make him go into a crazy pride bloated lunatic redneck who doesnt stop, yells at your face, doesnt listen to you, and best of all, i get to see him everyday. I try hard on the grades, but he doesn’t even check what’s going on, if he sees an ‘F’, that report card might not be updated and he starts yelling literally about nothing, i’m a 3.0 student. We’ve had some mental commotions in the past, we definetly do not respect each other, and i highly highly doubt we ever will, because of his arrogant pride. This might sound like a regular teenage drama story, NO. This guy wrecks my nerves, i can’t even go into an argument nowadays without having every nerve in my body make me twitch, i literally sit there and just tremble my legs and arms and the rest of my body. He always refers to me as "smartass" or "dumbass", because if its too sophisticated in words, im trying to be a smartass (example-
Him: where is (x)?
Me: I don’t know, let me check…
Him: What do you mean by check?
Me: I will look in the house and check where (x) is?
Him: you trying to be a smartass??
-example for dumbass, is just when he’s on a roll and out of things to say, so he’s not the brightest guy you’ll meet.
He acts like the boss of the house, he’s been raised all tough and mighty, a history of alcoholism has marked his trail, but even with that, he can cuss you out anyway, not being drunk. And constant threats, I’ll send you back to (country), I’ll send you to jail, I’ll call the police, I’m american and i have power over you, etc etc.
I can’t think straight with this storm in my head all the time, i’m tired of when i talk to people in the counseling service to talk "correctly", not to offend anybody, when the counseling service just kisses your ass and your stepdad’s even more to hopefully settle out the differences… YEAH RIGHT! It’s the same, we come back to the house, he hasn’t changed, same exact person. I have nobody to talk to who can give me a straightforward answer without "legally correcting" themselves. Our school majority is upper class, i’m middle. So again, learning from the school and the district, fights are usually done with papers, not by normally socializing like the good old days. My mom cannot help me very much because she doesn’t know the legal system, and not enough money to sue or anything of that sort in power. What should i do? I’m graduating, about to in a few days, i do not want to live with this close-minded idiot who talks trash to me all the damn time. Move out and live with i dont even know who, and pay for tuition that way, i’m tired of depending on this asshole, he and my mom CLEARLY get it. But what will that do? Work shifts with college.. i’ll stop for now, tell me what you think of the situation, it’s long enough to describe on emotions

I have no idea whom you’re suing. Do his threats to send you back mean you and your mom are undocumented? Don’t answer that, but if you are, you might be surprised that there would be money for you to go to college, maybe somewhere far away. Have you filled out a FAFSA and applied to college? Now that you’ll be graduated you might not have your school guidance counselor available to you, and even if you did, they might suck anyhow.

Hmm…I do not totally understand your issue here, but I think you should find a way to move out, rent a room or something, find work, and take classes. As a 3.0 student, you could easily get into college.

You’re 18, and you need to get out of there. Full financial aid to college would pay for room and board as well as tuition with a part time job on campus. Like I said, you may still have time to do your FAFSA and go to a college far away, even if it’s "Community College of [some city really far away] it would be a great start.

Sometime when your stepdad is out, could you ask your mom for her tax returns? Or, if you’re going to be an independent student, it would go on your information. Like I said, it’s surprisingly possible for an undocumented student to go to college, not that I’m saying you are.

Right?

I need to know for a novel that I’m working on-

If a fifteen year old girl drink drives resulting in the death of two people, and in turn suffers retrograde amnesia from the crash, causing her to completely forget her past except for the first four years of her life and become a completely different person who is much more shy and law abiding, what penalties would she receive? Would she have to do community service at all?

The law make it illegal for a person under the age of 21 to operate a motor vehicle with any alcohol in his system

In some states, the penalties are administrative, with an automatic license suspension but no possibility of jail time or criminal conviction. In others, however, underage drivers who have been drinking are charged with DUI or a related crime. Under both civil and criminal statutes, penalties are typically more severe for subsequent offenses, and breathalyzer test refusals are often treated in the same manner as measured violations.

In addition, underage drivers subject to zero tolerance prosecutions are often charged with additional crimes such as consumption of alcohol by a minor or possession of alcohol by a minor.