Alcohol -- one product 79% of teens and adults use to enable them to "forget their problems, have a "good time" or simply because they just want to experience being drunk and developing the "good feeling". It is the drug most often used by 12- to 17-year-olds, with more than four million adolescents drinking alcohol in any month. Okay—why do people really drink alcohol? A lot of research has been done to find and explore the reason/s why people drink alcohol. From one accurate research conducted in the Netherlands among 15 to 25 year-olds, the following answers came up, 71 percent said, “To be more social” and 51 percent said, “They like the taste”. I would have to disagree with those the taste is absolutely horrible, although alcohol puts you at ease to a certain extent, it should not be the answer to being able to socialize easier. Socializing should be a natural talent, and should not have to be forced, or feared. Alcohol is risky when you need more to feel good. If you cannot do that anymore on your own, and you use the alcohol for it, at a certain point you run the risk of starting to drink more and more each time to still feel the effects. This can be the beginning of an addiction. If you drink to feel good, you should ask yourself if you can also feel at ease without alcohol.
Those who often drink too much run a high risk of suffering physical damage. It is mainly the short term physical change that most Americans drink for—numbing, decrease in memory, judging situation and reduction in pain—although it is not recognized it is that alcohol level, in which most people settle for.
Everyone knows that being able to get loud and rowdy is a lot of fun, but be a responsible drinker, because you can hurt yourself as easy as you can hurt other around you.
