of Coronary Heart Disease, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (Alcohol and Coronary Heart Disease).When looking through the books I chose, I noticed that some of them also included information on how to keep teenagers off alcohol and, if they are already using it, how to help them get off it. In Teenagers & Alcohol, Volger & Bartz instill that teaching children while they are still pre-teens is best because this age is when they begin to develop their morals and ideas about what alcohol is. They stress that the parent must first clarify their stand on alcohol and whether it is a somewhat acceptable pastime for their child to be around. Then they should be prepared to answer common questions and to answer them in an honest and simple manner, since the child often know more or less the reason for others actions and can loose trust in the parent (Volger & Bartz 116).In 1994 a study was performed with adults over the age of eighteen, and of those tested, 82.1% of them had drunk alcohol within the past year (Alcohol and Addiction Studies). Many of these people are alcoholics and will never quit, and not because they do not want to. After continued use of alcohol, the abuser often has a very hard time quitting the habit without the aid of counselors of some sort who themselves are not also using the drug. Mendelson (January 28, 2000) claims There is a potentially effective treatment for everyone who suffers from alcoholism today, but unfortunately this goes beyond the scope of my paper (319).In conclusion, I have answered all the questions I originally set out on my journey to answer. I found that when teenagers decide to begin to drink alcohol, they are exposing themselves to a potentially deadly substance and that their using alcohol may have a relation to their family history. Alcohol can cause a person to act in a manner that he or she would not have normally. The effects of alcohol are directly ...
