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Costs Related To Drinking

JOHNNY K. AND LEE W.

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Costs related to drinking When you drink, there are physical and mental costs that you receive. When you drink alcohol, there are side effects like difficulty walking, blurred vision, slurred speech, slowed reaction times, and impaired memory. These can cause you to do stupid things you would never do when youre sober. These are just tiny cost when you drink alcohol too much.

Risk Factors - Children of alcoholics are significantly more likely than children of nonalcoholics to initiate drinking during adolescence and to develop alcoholism Childhood Behavior - Childhood antisocial behavior is associated with alcohol-related problems in adolescence and alcohol abuse or dependence in adulthood. Psychiatric Disorders - Among 12- to 16-year-olds, regular alcohol use has been significantly associated with conduct disorder; in one study, adolescents who reported higher levels of drinking were more likely to have conduct disorder. Suicidal Behavior - Alcohol use among adolescents has been associated with considering, planning, attempting, and completing suicide. Parenting, Family Environment, and Peers - Parents' drinking behavior and favorable attitudes about drinking have been positively associated with adolescents' initiating and continuing drinking Expectancies - Positive expectancies about alcohol have been found to increase with age and to predict the onset of drinking and problem drinking among adolescents. Trauma - Child abuse and other traumas have been proposed as risk factors for subsequent alcohol problems. Drinking and Driving - Of the nearly 8,000 drivers ages 15-20 involved in fatal crashes in 1995, 20 percent had blood alcohol concentrations above zero (58). Risky Behavior and Victimization - 8th and 10th graders indicated that alcohol use was significantly associated with both risky behavior and victimization. Prevention of Adolescent Alcohol Use - Measures to prevent adolescent alcohol use include policy interventions and community and educational programs.

While you drink, the alcohol triggers the release of dopamine; a chemical in the brain which produces feelings of satisfaction. This reaction causes you to have disturbed balance, slurred speech, blurred vision, excess sweating and the dulling of our sensation of pain. With this comes lack of judgment. This is where the real costs of drinking come in. Drinking to much can cause you to become an alcoholic. When you become an alcoholic, you may lose many of your friends because of your loss of judgment and control when drunk. When you drink when underage this also can happen. When adolescents drink, it is associated with there increasing independence. This causes them to do things that have to do with friends and peer pressure. This is one of the many cost of drinking. When you drink too much and lose to much judgment skills, then you want to drive home at the end of the day. When someone drives after they drank alcohol, it is called Driving Under the Influence. Many people get hurt when they drink and drive, and some get killed. In 2007, drinking and driving caused 15,387 deaths. This is the main cost of drinking, dying.