The adverse effects that alcohol has on a teenager can not only be dangerous for ones health but it could also result in a tragedy such as death. Whether it be a student in high school, college or a regular teenager, peer pressure plays a dramatic role with the outcome of his/her life: I can speak from personal experience.
My sophomore year of high school I started drinking alcohol and attending the regular parties, which occurred, on occassions. When people start getting involved with the “in crowd” anything and everything can happen: It could determine the outcome of a person’s life. High school is supposed to be the best times of a teenagers life and they want to live those incredible four years of their lives so they can remember those memories until they are eighty years old.
Throughout my high school times I drank alcohol on every day of every weekend and did it with all of my best friends. That’s all everyone did and there was not a possibility that myself or any of my friends could not always be around it because it was always there. None would even think of the long-term affects it would have on our lives because we were having the time of our lives and none could take that away from us.
I am now stuck with a year suspended licensee and two years probation and it was not at all worth it. I have numerous hours of community service and expensive fines over the next couple of years to pay for my wrongdoing. Now I was forced to move back home and work to pay off all of my fines for one night of partying.
I received two M.I.P.’s before I reached the age of sixteen. I considered it a slap on the wrist and kept on doing what ever I wanted to do. My friends and I were known for the party: If there was a party we were there.
Everything was going smoothly until I moved to Dallas to attend Brookhaven College. I didn’t study in high school so I automatically had the preconceived notion that I wouldn’t have to in College. Believe me, there is a lot more people and a lot more things to do than study in this unfamiliar place. I made friends and we would drink until the sun came up and sleep until 3:00 PM that next day. I noticed my attendance in my classes was steadily dropping and so were my grades. But I didn’t care. I cared about going out to clubs and getting inebriated until I would pass out or vomit. I continued Binge drinking that whole year, every day and every night.
ot drunk alcohol because of the trouble I’ve been getting into: M.I.C.’s, DWI, and all I have to show for it is absolutely nothing but wasted money and time. Memories have faded from my mind from this drug and i
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