Editorial On Drinking :: essays research papers

I walked into the house where the "party of the century" was press release to be held. I was psyched to be going. At the time I was a little naive freshman invited to my first official high cultivate party at a seniors house. I was at the party no more than 30 minutes when this boy offered me a drink in. Thinking nothing of it, I agreed. He brought back a half-filled cup. so whizr I took a sip, I recognized a familiar smell, one I really couldnt my finger on. It wasnt Pepsi and I knew it wasnt Sprite. Then it accomplish me, I was being offered intoxicant. I was only a freshman, and I was being offered a glass of alcohol. My first glass of alcohol. I could not believe it. Was this what growing up meant? Being able to drink and do exactly what my parents and teachers had been telling me not to do for as capacious as I could remember? I looked around the room, and saw separate people drinking the analogous stuff, then I saw them stumbling around, and any(prenominal) were in the corner puking. This never happens to the people on the beer commercials on TV, why should it happen to these kids? As I saw these people, my peers, the truth finally hit me, alcohol isnt for teenagers, no matter what the commercials say. Not only does alcohol make you look ridiculous, its illegal for people my age to be drinking. In a survey conducted by the Associated Press in 1998, more or less half of the American teenagers were drinkers. This same substance I had been told to refuse my sinless childhood was being consumed by nearly half of my peers. According to that same survey, nearly 9 out of 10 teenagers between the ages of 16 and 19 years of age had their first alcoholic beverage after their eleventh birthday. At this point, was I suppose to become a statistic or be that one out of ten people who doesnt use alcohol? In D.A.R.E., the drug education program children are taught up until they immortalize high school, they always tell you to Just Say No, alone I bet they have no clue what goes through the head word of naive teenagers who see all of their peers having a great time era they try to be the good kid and refuse.