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Alexis
Velasquez
Professor
Noh
English
114
12
October
2015
Teenagers
Under
the
Influence
substance.
Teenagers
are
curious
about
the
world
and
are
more
likely
to
try
things
we
should
not.
At
social
gatherings
teenagers
feel
comfortable
trying
news
things
such
as
alcohol
because
everyone
is
doing
it
and
it
is
cool.
Teenagers
are
more
likely
to
binge
drink
because
they
do
not
know
how
to
use
alcohol,
and
the
possibility
of
underage
drinkers
getting
into
danger
increases
substantially.
teenagers
are
starting
to
drive
at
a
younger
age
and
drinking
is
becoming
more
common.
More
drinking
and
drinking
laws
have
been
passed
in
the
last
ten
years
than
in
pervious
decades
combined
to
prevent
any
more
deaths
caused
by
alcohol.
Ten
percent
of
licensed
drivers
are
under
the
age
of
twenty-one,
yet
there
are
responsible
for
the
seventeen
percent
of
fatal
alcohol-related
crashes.
Driving
intoxicated
is
a
crime
period,
but
the
consequences
for
someone
under
the
age
to
break
the
law
are
far
worse.
This
is
a
problem
that
plagues
our
communities
and
hurts
our
economy,
Alcohol
related
crashes
cost
American
tax
payers
100
billion
dollars
ever
year
(NCADD).
drugs that do the most hurting but we are wrong, it the ones we can walk into a
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market
and
get
easily.
Alcohol
is
the
most
commonly
abused
substance
out
there,
not
the
illegal
hard
to
find
drugs.
Due
to
increased
public
awareness
and
enforcement
alcohol
impaired
driving
deaths
have
decreased
48.5%
from
1982(26,172)
to
2006(13,470)
and
probably
much
more
since
then
(NCADD).
Levithan
showcases
the
pain
of
fighting
the
addiction
perfectly
in
his
book,
although
it
not
always
the
stereotypical
single
story
we
know
of
substance
abuse.