Alcohol is a drug like marijuana and cocaine. Alcohol is a downer not an upper. Even though you may initially become uninhibited and laugh, it actually depresses your central nervous system.
Alcohol is the most frequent contributor to motor vehicle accidents and suicides in adolescents.
Alcohol can delay your normal psychosocial development. It has been said that your emotional maturity arrests at the time that you start using alcohol. Purchase and public possession of alcohol by people under the age of 21 is illegal in all 50 states. The number one way teens contract the AIDS virus is by having unprotected sex while under the influence of alcohol. There is no such thing as teenage social drinking.