In order to stop this epidemic, as a society we need to teach teens what alcohol is and what alcohol does to them. They need to know what harm alcohol does to them physically and mentally. They need to know that, not only does alcohol cause harm to themselves, but when they are

Teens have died either because they drove while drinking alcohol. When driving under the influence, it cuts your reaction time down, you thinking time and alcohol makes you sleepy which can make you fall asleep at the wheel. This causes fatal accidents. Or they may have ended up with the wrong crowd and have been shot. Or just because the alcohol made them in a depressed state. Teens have been known to drink to cover up problems. they do this because they think it will make their problems go away. But it doesn’t. They get so depressed while intoxicated they make themselves believe that suicide is the answer and actually follow through with it.

Alcohol is a drug made when fruits, grains and vegetables are fermented. This is when a process using bacteria and yeast causes the sugars in the original food to change chemically into alcohol. Fermenting is an everyday useful process that enables us to make medicines, cheeses, vitamins and citric acids. These things help us get better when sick and gives us some of the foods we eat. Alcohol is also used in everyday life as an antiseptic, sedative and even as a cleaning product, but when consumed it can be dangerous to our health.

Your liver is affected because you are poisoning it. The liver oxidizes what you drink, it changes alcohol to water, carbon dioxide and energy. It can only oxidize about a half ounce of alcohol an hour, because of this it allows the alcohol to keep traveling through your bodies organs. It causes your liver not to able to break down the fats. When your liver can not do this, it causes a condition known as fatty liver. With the increased amount of fat left, it prevents the normal function of the livers cell. It interferes with new growth cells and blocks the flow of blood and oxygen to your liver. This can be repaired if you stop drinking. Drinking also causes cirrhosis, it’s when your liver tis

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