Did You Know.........

· 11 million teenagers drink alcohol
· 7 million considered binge drinkers
· 21% of 8th graders said they been drunk
· 42% of 10th graders said they been drunk
· Teens who drink heavily are 4.5 times to have problems with alcohol when they are older
· Adults who drank as teens are more likely to have mental health disorders like depression
· Teen drinking effect grades and suicide attempts
· Alcohol reduces self control and increases impulsive behavior while reducing the reactive time
· Higher probability of committing crimes
· Suffer liver damage
· Early drinking can hurt the physical growth and development of the brain
· More than 10% of 8th graders 22% of 11th graders and 26% of 12th graders said that they have had 5+ drinks on the same occasion
· 54% of high school sophomores said that they have been drunk in the past month
· 65% of high school seniors said that have been drunk in the past month
· The brain continues to develop into a person early 20s and the exposure of that brain to alcohol may have long lasting effects on the intellectual capabilities
· For each year that the start of drinking is delayed the risk of later alcohol dependence is reduced by 14%
· Teens who drink alcohol are more likely than non drinkers to smoke marijuana, use inhalants, or carry a weapon
· Studies have shown that 40% of those who started drinking before the age of 15 are sure to meet the criteria of alcoholism later in life
· Depression is also an effect of excessive consumption of alcohol at a early age
· 31% of teens who said that they have been drunk in the past year were said by their parents to be non- drinkers
· The brain hippocampus (responsible for learning and memory) can be 10% smaller in underage drinkers
· The age when most kids try alcohol is 11 for boys and 13 for girls
· By 14 41% of kid had one drink
· Begin drinking regularly is 15.9 years old
· Before the age 15 teens are 5 times more likely to develop alcohol dependence
· The three leading causes of death for 15-24 year olds are car crashes, homicides and suicides alcohol is a leading factor in all three
· Binge drinking often beginning around age 13 tends to increase during adolescence
· Alcohol can have a negative effect on the mind and body of an adolescent in ways people don’t realize
· A higher percentage of young people use alcohol than use tobacco or illicit drugs
· Approximately 10% of 12 year olds say they have used alcohol at least once by age 13 that number doubles
· The start id alcohol use in adolescence is influenced more by an adolescent’s environment than by his or her genetics
· Teens drink less frequently than adults but when teens do drink that drink more than adults. On average youth have about five drinks on a single occasion this is a definition of binge drinking
· Adults who report first using alcohol before age 15 are five times more likely to also report abuse of or dependence on alcohol than adults who first used alcohol at age 21 or older
· Each year approximately 5,000 people under the age 21 die as a result of underage drinking this includes 1,900 deaths from car crashes 1,600 as a result of homicides 300 from suicide as well as hundreds from other injuries such as falls, burns and drowning
· Physical effects of underage drinking range from hangovers to death from alcohol poisoning
· Drink can cause changes in the structure and function of developing brain especially when kids drink heavily
· Today nearly 10.8 million youth ages 12-20 are underage drinkers
· Young adults ages 18-20 have the highest rate of alcohol dependence
· By the age 18 more than 70% or teens have had at least one drink
· Those who started drinking before the age 14 47% experienced dependence at some point vs. 9% who started after 21 years of age
· Teenage have been drinking alcohol for centuries
· Mounting research suggests that alcohol causes more damage to developing brains of teens than was previously though injuring them significantly more that it does adult brains
· One of the areas known to be affected is the hippocampus a structure crucial for learning and memory
· Make you gain weight
· Make you feel sick or dizzy
· Give you bad breath
· Make you clumsy
· Slur your speech
· Make your skin break out
· Make you feel out of control

To Much Work To Do

So today I finshed my key terms and wrote down everything that I need to finsh before the trimester is over and I fail this class. Well the hardest part that I need to do will be the questions and the paragraph. Well thats all for today on my project so talk to you later

So I know what I have to do

Well I still have to do my Webliography then I have to do key terms also my foundation questions and my did you know. I feel like if I didn't fall behind that I would have got most of this stuff done by now and I would be with everyone else. And this is because I play games and never did anything in this class but I am now.

So I need do work

I am Falling behind and I dont want to be here so am going to do alot of work this weekend probly and try to get back where everyone else is so that I dont fail. My topic is so big that I dont know where to go with it.

10 Websites

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/health/04teen.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
2. http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun01/teendrink.html
3. http://www.duke.edu/~amwhite/Adolescence/adolescent6.html
4. http://www.infoscotland.com/alcohol/displaypage.jsp;jsessionid=4F713EC3C024C42023D110A05991A363?pContentID=59&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_alcohol
6. http://www.dassa.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=122
7. http://www.salagram.net/AlcoholEffects.html
8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-term_effects_of_alcohol
9. http://www.doitnow.org/pages/120.html
10. http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa63/aa63.htm

I think I know

I think I am going to do my project on teen drinking and the effects of it long term because I dont know what else to do becuse somebody is rushing me to get started.

I Have Some Ideas

I think I might do my grad project on teen drinking or like the end of life. You know how if a dog gets hurt and you have a choice to put it to sleep or keep it alive well dont you think people should have that choice to take there own life if they are really sick but if doctors help they would get put into jail. Or I can do my project on the history of the steelers those are the topics that I have I just dont know yet.

STILL DON'T KNOW

I still don't know but I want to do something in food, sports, or movies and no one is trying to help me to find out what I want to do.

This is dumb

I dont like these Grad Project becuase I dont know what I want to do and am scared that i will fail and not get out of high school. Also I think that I put so much pressure on it that when I mess up I will get mad and quit doing it. But I need help of find out what i want to do.