2.Moses, Donald A., Are you Driving your Children to Drink? Coping with Teenage Alcohol and Drug Abuse. ; New York; Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1975

3.Englebardt, Stanley L., Kids and Alcohol the Deadliest Drug. ; New York; Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, 1975

4.Filstead, William J., Alcohol and Alcohol Problems: New Thinking and New Directions. ; Cambridge, Mass.; Ballinger Publishing Company, 1976

5.Goodwin, Donald., Is Alcoholism Hereditary?; New York ; Oxford University Press, 1982

Alcohol use by High School and middle school or Junior high school kids is on the rise. Many different reasons are blamed for this reason, parents, peer pressure, or just because the students want to escape their every day problems. The numbers for High school Seniors was at a all time low but started to increase in 1992. The number of High School students who admitted to consuming five or more drinks, which is considered binge drinking, went from a all time high in 1980 of 41% to a low of 28% in 1992.

In conclusion, we as suture teachers need to observe as well as teach our students so that they don’t go down a dead end rod to where they can’t get themselves turned around. We all need to look at each one of our students as if they were one of our own and teach them that it is ok to make mistakes in their lives, just learn from them and move on with your life. Were only here a short while, make the best of it while you can.

One quote that really hit me when doing my research was this one by L. Lewin, “ Substances which act on the brain mock all obstacles which oppose their extension. Their attraction grows slowly, silently, but surely.”

In high school on the other hand the administration has to take notice. High school kids are supposed to be a safe environment inside their school, if the use of alcohol is being done on school property the teachers and faculty must take action. Even though it seems like no students would think of the use of alcohol on school grounds, it really does happen. In my high school it happened, my friends and I had bottles of hard liquor in our lockers and would take shots between classes. We were all prominent athletes in both Football and in Track and we always got away with it. The teachers never seem to ever notice that we were intoxicated. The signs that a student is under the influence of a drug can range from any of the following; slurred speech, slowed reaction time, red or blood shot eyes, and/or the

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