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TEENAGE ALCOHOL USE

            For young people, alcohol is the number one drug of choice. Teens use alcohol more frequently and heavily than all other drugs combined, or that is what I found out from my friend. Her name is Anna M. I met her when we lived in Brooklyn. She is the daughter of my mom's friend from work. She is 16 years old and is getting better today. No one knew about the problem until she began to give the symptoms. These were some of the symptoms she gave. 1-lost interest in family activities 2- disrespected family rules 3- removed herself from responsibilities 4- became verbally abusive 5- had decrease in appetite 6- gave regular excuses for behavior 7- spending a lot of time in her room. The family suspected that something was wrong but decided to wait. Now more series symptoms began to appear. Since she was a straight A+ student it got worse. 1- Anna suddenly dropped in grades 2- lost her interest in learning 3- slept in class 4- showed poor work performance 5- skipped homework 6-and became rebellious to authority. Now her family decided to take her to a shrink or a psychiatrist. Psychiatrist told the family that she had a big problem with alcohol. The family later gave her to a rehabilitation center and moved to New Jersey to help her out. When my family and I found out we were shocked. I decided to visit her in the rehabilitation center. Since I was one of her friends she only talked to me and threw everyone else out of her life. She told me that her family destroyed her happy life. I went into deeper stuff when we talked, she revealed stuff to me that was unbelievable. I decided to help her any way I could and get her back on the feet into a normal life. What I am going to put here is her private story that she told in the center. When we first talked she admitted that she was an alcohol addict. Then we talked about her life and why she started to drink. She said basically because of her friends and peer-pressure.


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