how fast can you get addicted to alcohol and how can you tell?

Question

im 15 and a freshmen andi like to drink i think its fun and lightens me up at parties but idont want to become addicted and im not sure if i am i just wanna no how fast you can get addicted to it?

Answer 1

No way to know for sure, but here are some warning signs:

1. There is alcoholism in your family - a parent, aunt or uncle...or several relatives with it.
2. The buzz comes on after only a little in the system...say a can of beer. If that puts you under the table, watch out.
3. You drink - alone - whenever you are feeling low.
4. You go for long periods without drinking, then binge and can't remember what happened, where you were, or whom you were with.

Even then, you may not be an alcoholic. But, starting at 15 and really liking it is a dangerous road to travel. Lay off and have some fun as a sober kid for a while. You won't be missing anything. And, you don't want to get too loose at parties, anyway. That could be dangerous.

Whatever you do, NEVER...and I mean NEVER...drink and get behind the wheel of a car. You just might kill a member of my family.

Answer 2

You can get addicted really quickly. Here is a list of questions from an Alcoholics anonymous book. It's long and some may not apply to you, but read it anyways because I spent a long time typing this for you, ok?
ARE YOU AN ALCOHOLIC?
1)Do you lose time from work/school due to drinking?
2)Is drinking making your home life unhappy?
3)Do you drink because you're shy with other people?
4)Is drinking affecting your reputation?
5)Have you ever felt remorse after drinking?
6)Have you gotten into financial difficulties as a result of drinking?
7)Do you turn to lower companions and an inferior environment when drinking?
8) Does your drinking make you careless of your family's welfare?
9) Has your ambition decreased since drinking?
10)Do you crave a drink at a definite time daily?
11)Do you want a drink the next morning?
12)Does drinking cause you to have difficulty in sleeping?
13)Has your efficiency decreased since drinking?
14)Is drinking jeopardizing your school/job?
15)Do you drink to escape from worries or troubles?
16)Do you ever drink alone?
17)Have you ever had a complete loss of memory as a result of your drinking?
18)Has your physician ever treated you for drinking?
19)Do you drink to build up your self-confidence?
20)Have you ever been to a hospital or institution on account of drinking?

If you have answered yes to any of these questions, there is a definite warning that you may be an alcoholic.
If you answered yes to two, chances are that you are an alcoholic.
Yes to three or more, you are definitely an alcoholic.

Answer 3

First of all at 15, unless you want to develop a long standing addiction, my advice is stop now. Alcohol is insidious. You start with just one beer, then another, then you start mixing it with other alcohol, (which is what gets people sick), and you think, I can have another and another.
You need to be careful of alcohol poisoning, a very real, dangerous side effect if too much is consumed at one time. You can die from it and yes, people do. The second issue is under age drinking and the possibility of DUI. Both are illegal, and if you hit a pedestrian, its manslaughter.
You have years to drink, what is the rush? Your friends are not friends if they are allowing you to get sloshed, sick, and try to drive. You will never get a liscence, lose what you have, its a bad game of chess with no winners. Its not cool to see people drunk and staggering, not attractive to the opposite sex.
Rehab facilities are full of kids like you. You start young and can't stop. Stop and think before you drink too much. Your liver and body will thank you.

Answer 4

i don't have self assurance it truly is a gender based reaction. Genetics may bring about alcoholism. Alcohol byproducts are theoried to combine with compounds interior the strategies to furnish a narcotic-like bring about specific human beings, predisposing them to be alcoholics. women human beings get inebriated speedier because of the fact: a million) they do no longer weigh as lots and a pair of) they normally have decrease tollerences.

Answer 5

Young as 15 and adventurous..well you will surely get addicted for as long as you are with friends who drink too, for as long as you attend to parites..so the best thing is refrain to having such peer, too many parties and involve more yourself to more active and clean activities..ok?

Answer 6

you can get addicted to anything fast
so only drink it at parties or with friends.
but not too much though!

Answer 7

for the rite person 1 drink can make you an alcoholic you are way to young to drink at all i started even younger and it took 23years to stop go and talk to some one at alateen or alanon good luck

Answer 8

its different for each person, some can get addicted right away, others not, you know that its illegal for you to drink until you are 18 right?

Answer 9

pretty fast, if you suffer from alcoholism. it doesn't matter how much, or how often you drink. a warning sign is, when you can't stop completely, no matter how hard you try.

Answer 10

u know ur gonna get a whole bunch of people that are going to tell you to not drink right?