So young that they are going to have a bad liver. So they are damage their liver that they eventually have liver failure. What if they already have a liver disease, what will happen?
2007-01-05 20:36:52 · 16 answers · asked by LaLa 4 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Adolescent
I had no desire to drink when I was 16, I never drank until the day I turned 18, then I went hell for leather. God I was sick.
I think though, most of them do it because they are bored, peer pressure, they think it is really cool, but I assure them, it isn't. When people see drunk teenagers in the street we dont think how cool they are. We look at them and think that they are worthless pieces of crap who should be at home sober!
Now I am a mum and my two kids wouldn't dare drink underage! (one is 14, the other is 9) I am over the whole drinking thing, but the only times I do drink is on my birthday (july) and New Years. At my age (34) I can't handle the drink anymore, which is a good thing because I don't like drinking anyway! I really just save it for special occasions!
I haven't really answered anything you asked, but oh well. Happy reading anyway! ha ha ha
2007-01-06 00:56:31 · answer #1 · answered by melfromhell001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Teenagers drink because it's the appeal of the "forbidden fruit". It is something that they're not allowed to do, which, in and of itself, makes it more exciting.
I drank a little when I was a teenager, and I ended up making myself SOOO sick (I barfed all night that night) that by the time I got to my twenty-first birthday, I had only a glass of wine with dinner.
Healthy teenagers aren't going to be dealing with liver disease. In most cases, cirrhosis of the liver and liver failure does not happen until later in life, and that is from YEARS of drinking and hardcore abuse. The youngest person I have known who died from liver disease was almost fifty. He spent his entire youth and adulthood drinking heavily (to be honest, I don't think that he saw a sober moment) to the point of not being able to keep a job.
Teenagers and college students drink, though, in most cases. As a parent, the bad part about this is that there's not too much you can do about it. If they want to drink, did you know that they can get alcohol in school? If you think that's moderately horrifying, what if your kid is getting behind the wheel of a car to drive home AFTER school?
My son will be at that age in about six or seven years. He'll be ready to start experimenting. The scary part is, I know he's going to. I just pray that I can instill enough common sense into him by then that he knows when stop.
2007-01-05 20:58:13 · answer #2 · answered by <3 The Pest <3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Getting drunk doesn't necessarily make them alcoholics. As teenagers they don't know their limit w/ alcohol. Worry about the adults who are still getting drunk . That's more questionable. Teens are just trying to be cool find themselves and have a good time. When someone is mean when they're drunk that's a good sign they have a drinking problem. I know alcoholics in their 60's who don't have liver problems. Susceptibility is different per person I think
2007-01-05 20:44:29 · answer #3 · answered by uknowme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a bad liver and it wasn't from drinking! I'm 14 years 3 weeks and 2 days old and I have never drank and I do not plain to either my liver is bad for other reasons and I can fix my probelm and live to a old age and thats just what I am doing
2007-01-06 04:50:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a fun feeling until the whole hangover thing sets in. Plus the whole taboo thing make it even more desirable.
I think the answer to your question is obvious, liver failure=death. I wouldn't say that all young people that like to get drunk are alcoholics though. They just like to get drunk every so often, who doesn't?
2007-01-05 20:38:38 · answer #5 · answered by premise 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's not that teenagers like to get drunk but sometimes it runs in the family. and teenagers crack under peer pressure like it's nothing. they want to experiment and they are scared that if they dont follow their peers that they will be excluded. if they already have liver disease then you need to take them to get some help take them to a doctor so your Doctor can suggest a specialist.
2007-01-06 04:40:33 · answer #6 · answered by princess_deja_boyd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Teenagers love what they are not to have, I know I did. Once I became legal age to drink my tolerance for some reason changed and I could not hang the way I did in high school.
2007-01-05 20:40:16 · answer #7 · answered by curyouss1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"College students have been hospitalized after drinking the beverages, including the popular Four Loko. Four states – Washington, Michigan, Utah and Oklahoma – have banned them and other states are considering similar action. Police in Mesa, Ariz., said an "extremely intoxicated" teenager smashed her SUV into a tree Sunday morning after reportedly playing "beer pong" with Four Loko."
2016-05-22 22:23:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lots of reasons, peer pressure, lack of things to do, and sometimes real addiction. I dont drink alcohol I havent ever drank before and Im 16.
2007-01-05 20:39:51 · answer #9 · answered by Socrates 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
teenagers like to drink because its fun there isn't anything else to do around here they closed down all the places we can hang out and that kept us out of trouble and everywhere they didn't shut down they put a curfew of like 6pm so yea u either drink or do drugs or both or you rob people and stuff like that I'm 16 am going to be 17 in July
2007-01-05 20:43:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋